Beware the Shrinking Imagination
Dr. Timothy Eatman challenges those working across higher education to practice the five values of imagination: Hope,
History, Passion, Empathy, and Planning.
2022 – Recordings and Resources
Expanding the Ecosystem, Mapping Strategic Progress, Integrating Campus Conversations
The 2022 Summer Institute on Equity in the Academic Experience is made possible through the generous support of the American Talent Initiative (ATI), Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Gray Foundation.
Over the course of the three-day hybrid institute, participants from across the country gathered together in both virtual and in-person spaces to discuss and design responses to their institutions’ most pressing challenges to academic equity. A total of 15 interactive panel sessions with nearly 50 speakers were offered over the course of the three-day institute. Find more information on the format and program of the 2022 Summer Institute here (new window).
Find recordings and resources from each panel on the panel session pages linked below.
Daily Provocations
The counter-intuitive logic behind closing equity gaps in higher education
Dr. Timothy Renick highlights how some postsecondary institutions are making transformative gains to close equity gaps.
How do we institutionalize love?
Dr. Mary Lomax-Ghirarduzzi
offers a humanizing framework for belonging and justice in American higher education
2022 Interactive Sessions:
Day 1: Getting going
Daily Welcome
Interactive Sessions
(1.1) Centering Equity in Enrollment Management and Admissions Strategies
(1.2) Equity Leadership: Responding to Change, Continuity, & Sustainability
(1.3) Using Data on Campuses / Campus Climate Surveys.
(2.1) High-Impact Practices and Equity: A Site for Institutional Integration
(2.2) Integrating Inclusive Pedagogy into University Systems: 3 Models
(2.3) Using Data to Identify Interventions and Increase Retention
Day 2: Digging in
Daily Welcome
Interactive Sessions:
(3.1) Building Equitable, Successful Transfer Pathways
(3.2) Creating Contexts of Belonging
(3.3) Our One Stop Journey: Embracing an Integrated Student Service Model Through a Process Improvement Framework.
(4.1) Aligning General Education Diversity Learning Outcomes with Institutional DEI Priorities
(4.2) Building Student Success through Gateway Courses
(4.3) Connections between Evaluation of Teaching and Inclusive Excellence: Strategies for Departmental & Institutional Change
Day 3: Sharing Out
Daily Welcome
Interactive Sessions
(5.1) Advancing First-Generation Student Success through Relationship-Rich Undergraduate Experiences
(5.2) Bias Reporting and Racial and Ethnic Justice Transitions at Penn State Brandywine
(5.3) Forging a Path While Navigating Resistance: Rewarding and Recognizing Faculty DEI Work
2022 Participating Institutions
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