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…
Posts by Diana
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…
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…
#MeToo Leadership
From our Coaching Clinic: commentary related to key themes encountered in our coaching of faculty and academic administrators. The #MeToo movement has ushered in many kinds of change: empowering individuals, defining accountability expectations, raising awareness, sparking discussion, and more. While…
The Educational Case for Diversity and Inclusion
What does diversity have to do with higher education? Diversity promotes learning. In their landmark Supreme Court case on Affirmative Action, the University of Michigan demonstrated that interactions across social identity differences have the potential to make us smarter. With…
Three Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
For diversity efforts to succeed, we need greater specificity about the meaning of these efforts and the strategies we might use to achieve these outcomes. In our work, we categorize these efforts into three approaches: building representational diversity (what we…
Creating Inclusive Classrooms
College and university classrooms are a potent, important, and effective arena for inclusion. An inclusive setting in the classroom is important because it models the ideals of non-discriminatory environment. Providing a learning experience in this context means allowing for equal…