Your registration fee includes full access to all conference sessions and materials, breakfast, lunch, and access to the networking reception on Wednesday, breakfast and lunch on Thursday, as well as refreshments and snacks throughout the conference.

8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Eastern (local time in Orlando, FL)

 

Registration & Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

 

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Welcome & Keynote Address: Addressing the State of DEI Efforts Across the Country
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
In this opening keynote address, our guest speaker, Dr. Myron Anderson, will address the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education across the country. With over 25 years in leading these kinds of efforts for multiple campuses, Myron will share strategies that he has implemented to identify and build campus-wide partnerships that yield more campus-wide support. You will hear how he has strategically inspired participation from a variety of campus stakeholders, including faculty, staff, students, and campus leaders.

 

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Networking Break & Keynote Address Reflections
10:15 – 10:45 a.m.
You will have the opportunity to sit with colleagues from similar-sized institutions to share your reflections after listening to the keynote speaker’s opening remarks. This will give you an opportunity to meet and connect with 4-5 other diversity leaders at your table so that you can begin to share your emergent or best thinking on how to inspire more campus-wide support for your DEI initiatives.

 

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Roundtable Discussions: Building Coalition Strategies (pick two topics – 40 minutes each round)
10:45 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. (Round One) *5-minute break
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (Round Two)

• Roundtable Option #1: Building Coalition Strategies with Community Partners (not on-campus)
• Roundtable Option #2: Building Coalition Strategies with Faculty & Faculty Leaders
• Roundtable Option #3: Building Coalition Strategies with Advocates, Allies, or Champions of DeI Initiatives

 

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Lunch
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.

 

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Presentation & Discussion: Centering Equity in the Promotion & Tenure Process
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
We are seeing significant and innovative shifts in how institutions address inequities and modify their promotion and tenure processes. Whether that means rethinking the role of service in P&T, addressing faculty workloads, striving for more consistent measures and guidelines, or addressing bias in judgement of reviewers of service, equity in P&T processes is an ever-evolving conversation. Our expert speakers will create the space for an open dialogue on the most pressing issues and innovative solutions taking place in higher education.

 

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Short Break
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

 

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Inclusive Leadership Workshop
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Join our Academic Impressions Head of Practice for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Dr. Sandra Miles, as she leads a workshop and discussion on how you can navigate your own social identity privileges as they relate to advancing DEI initiatives while actively engaging your community members in the same way. This train-the-trainer two-hour workshop is designed to help you define how combined privileges in your community can create many new possibilities and opportunities to strengthen your current DEI efforts, priorities, and goals.

 

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Networking Reception
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
This reception will be hosted by HireEd Careers by Academic Impressions. Our new diversity job board not only gets your jobs in front of diverse professionals, but it’s also the first time AI is providing institution-level access to our members, who — like you — are growth-minded professionals. We encourage diversity leaders to consider the recruitment, hiring, and interviewing processes, as well as all of the ways we can support one another in making those processes more equitable. Participants from the concurrent Faculty Affairs Summit will also join us during this networking reception.

 

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8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern (local time in Orlando, FL)

 

Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

 

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Concurrent Sessions for New & Seasoned Diversity Leaders
Depending on the size of the group and the range of experience among those participating, we may split one session into two, with one serving seasoned (academic) diversity leaders and the other calibrated for new (academic) diversity leaders with less than three years of experience.

9:00 – 10:45 a.m.

• Concurrent Session #1: Seasoned diversity officers/leaders (with more than 3+ years of experience in their current professional roles) will have an opportunity to identify, discuss, and problem-solve pain points when trying to identify strategic campus partners that yield more campus support.
• Concurrent Session #2: New diversity officers/leaders (those with less than 3 years of experience in their current professional roles) will have an opportunity to identify, discuss, and share their leadership philosophies and how they deploy their leadership skills to advance DEI initiatives.

 

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Short Break
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.

 

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Solutions Clinic Discussions (pick one topic)
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

• Solutions Clinic Option #1: Share and learn how you and other summit participants are leading race-conscious best practices on campus (e.g., training efforts, responding to hate-crime incidents, new bills/laws forbidding or challenging diversity work, etc.).
• Solutions Clinic Option #2: Share and learn how you and other summit participants are leading recruitment and retention best practices on campus (e.g., inclusive job descriptions, search committee training topics, working with critical campus partners like HR, etc.).

 

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Lunch and Closing Address
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Join us for our closing luncheon featuring our guest speaker, Dr. John Miller, Dean of Curriculum and Senior Diversity Officer at St. Norbert College. Given John’s unique dual role crossing DEI and Faculty Affairs, he will help you to identify critical takeaways and reasonable action steps as a participant of either the Chief Diversity Officer or Faculty Affairs Summits.