Your registration fee includes full access to all conference sessions and materials, breakfast, lunch, and access to the networking reception on Wednesday and 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: Supporting the Diverse Needs of Faculty in an Evolving Higher Ed Landscape
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Most policies and practices in higher education are designed around tenure-track faculty, despite the increase in positions that encompass a variety of titles and responsibilities. Further, a lack of access to tenure-track roles parallel inequities in society that derail professional success and stability for underrepresented populations. In our opening keynote, Corrie Fountain, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Georgia State University, will draw on her experience as a Faculty Affairs administrator and her expertise as a scholar of higher education and intersectionality in order to explore how we can build an infrastructure that equitably supports a diverse faculty body and pathways to advancement.

 

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Concurrent Sessions, Part 1
10:15 – 12:15 p.m.
During this time, we will feature concurrent sessions on a variety of relevant topics such as:

• Faculty Retention and Engagement
• Faculty Leadership Development
• Climate and Collegiality
• Supporting Alternative Academic Faculty

 

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Lunch
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.

 

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Presentation & Discussion: Centering Equity in the Promotion and Tenure Process
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
We are seeing significant and innovative shifts in how institutions are addressing inequities and modifying 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 ed.

 

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Break
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

 

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Concurrent Sessions, Part 2
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
During this time, we will feature concurrent sessions on a variety of relevant topics such as:

• Faculty Retention and Engagement
• Faculty Leadership Development
• Climate and Collegiality
• Supporting Alternative Academic Faculty

 

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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. We encourage faculty affairs leaders to consider the hiring, interviewing, and negotiation processes, as well as all the ways we can support one another in making those processes more equitable.

 

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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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Roundtables by Institutional Type
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
In this portion of the summit, we will break out based on institutional type to allow for deeper conversation and connection around the same topics, but specific to similar institutional context and challenges.

 

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Break
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

 

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Solutions Clinic: Building Your Faculty Affairs Toolkit
10:30 – 12:00 p.m.
As a way to bring home the issues that have surfaced throughout the summit, we will end on a practical note. The solutions clinic will feature practical solutions, tools, and best practices that your peers are utilizing around a variety of topic areas that include:

• Supporting diverse faculty pathways and stages
• Equity in personnel reviews
• Faculty retention and engagement
• Faculty climate and collegiality
• Faculty leadership development

If you would like to present a topic as part of the solutions clinic, you will have an opportunity to submit a topic in advance. These are micro-presentations, no more than 15 minutes in length, and the idea is to share a tool, template, best practice, policy, etc. that has enabled you to engage in this work more effectively and meaningfully. To submit a topic, please email a short proposal to jenna@academicimpressions.com

 

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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/Academic Diversity Officer or Faculty Affairs Summits.