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What Can I Expect in My First Coaching Session?

February 5, 2020

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…

Academic Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Celebrating Faculty Leaders: Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

November 30, 2018

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…

Academic Culture, Diversity & Inclusion

Education from Experience: The Four Corners of Oppression

July 10, 2018

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…

Diversity & Inclusion, Faculty Careers

Do Faculty Do Enough for Diversity?

April 7, 2018

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?…

Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

March 21, 2018

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…

Academic Culture, Coaching Clinic, Conflict, Diversity & Inclusion

#MeToo Leadership

February 12, 2018

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…

Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

The Educational Case for Diversity and Inclusion

October 31, 2017

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…

Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Three Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

October 3, 2017

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…

Diversity & Inclusion

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

September 5, 2017

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…

Academic Culture, CPI 260

The Insightful Empathic Faculty

June 27, 2017

This series of posts describes what we’ve learned about the peculiarities of leadership in academia based on our work with the CPI 260® leadership assessment. See the introduction to this series for background on this assessment. In this post we’re…

Posts by Diana

What Can I Expect in My First Coaching Session?

Celebrating Faculty Leaders: Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

Education from Experience: The Four Corners of Oppression

Do Faculty Do Enough for Diversity?

Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

#MeToo Leadership

The Educational Case for Diversity and Inclusion

Three Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Creating Inclusive Classrooms

The Insightful Empathic Faculty

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