Why Long Emails Don’t Help Departmental Tensions (5 minute coaching)
Diana takes a quick look at inflammatory responses in the human body to illuminate the differences between helpful responses to departmental tensions and those that are not.
Posts by Diana
A New Mission
We’ve been pondering the question: Is academia worth it? It’s because of deadlines and emails accumulating until there’s no time left at all, faculty meetings that go nowhere or make things worse, toxic colleagues that no one seems able to…
Ruminations from Diana
I’m organizing a coaching group, or a community dialogue, or a respite space, or maybe it’s a revolution. It’s a way to respond to the growing number of faculty who contact us with the question, “Is this worth it?” They…
What Can I Expect in My First Coaching Session?
The first coaching session is an opportunity for you and your coach to get to know each other. This process unfolds as you reflect on questions like the ones below (in addition to any other information you may have provided…
Celebrating Faculty Leaders: Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity
In Fall of 2018, NSF received the final summary report on TECAID, Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity, an NSF-funded project awarded to the Women in Engineering Proactive Network (WEPAN) in collaboration with the American Society of Mechanical…
Education from Experience: The Four Corners of Oppression
In our work with engineering faculty through TECAID (Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity), we had the opportunity to draw on the foundational pedagogical tools and principles that inform much of the work that we do in higher…
Dissonance as a Driver of Change
Dissonance drives change. The work of Piaget, Festinger and Lewin (among others) demonstrates that without dissonance, and the equally important process of resolution or integration, it is unlikely that people or organizations will let go of prior ideas and embrace…
Do Faculty Do Enough for Diversity?
I confess: the title of this blog is playing by the rules of popular media, not academia. It’s meant to stir the pot and attract attention by invoking a whole host of reactionary questions… Should faculty do anything for diversity?…
Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity
The TECAID Project TECAID, Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity, is an NSF-funded project that is now a leading voice in making DEI-focused changes in engineering departments. We at Kardia Group feel especially proud to have played the…
Faculty Experiences with Coaching
“When I signed up for coaching, I didn’t know how this would help. I’ve been pleasantly surprised, especially by how helpful it’s been to talk things through – and for the ways it’s shown me where my head was stuck…