Excellence in engineering education requires an institutional focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). This may include consideration of demographics (e.g., student, faculty, staff), recruitment and retention, the curriculum, institutional climate, etc. This session will introduce participants to the Inclusive Professional Framework for Faculty (IPF: Faculty), a research-informed, holistic, professional development model created by the National Science Foundation includes Aspire Alliance. The IPF: Faculty enables department chairs and other institutional leaders to consider their DEI-focused policies, practices and programs, and conduct a deeper examination of these departmental structural systems in tandem with both interpersonal and individual systems (e.g., dynamics and mental models), to better promote sustained change. Participants will apply the framework to their departmental DEI work.
As a result of attending this session, participants will:
- Learn about a holistic professional development framework
- Reflect on how to identity/power/positionality inform their leadership, particularly as it relates to DEI
- Consider how to interrupt “professionalism standards” in use in higher education
- Explore building a shared vision with departmental faculty
- Identify an action plan for DEI-focused departmental change