In 2023-24, FAN turned to a series of conversations about navigating sensitive topics with students, difficult conversations with colleagues, and explosive crises facing faculty leaders. These programs included:
Navigating Sensitive Topics in Your Teaching and Research Spaces (December 7, 2023) {Related Resources}
"That didn't go the way I thought it would." How to Manage Yourself and Have More Productive Conversations with Colleagues (December 14, 2023)
The Prepared Faculty Leader: A Conversation with John Jackson and Erika James (January 23, 2024)
In 2022-23, FAN invited scholars to expand our faculties’ and chairs’ capacity for inquiry, equity, and inclusive leadership in the academic department:
Advancing Racial Diversity: What Academic Departments Likely Can (Still) Do, Whatever the Supreme Court Decides (May 2, 2023) {Related Resources}
Actualizing Racial Equity throughout the Faculty Hiring Process (April 29, 2022) {Related Resources}
Supporting Your BIPOC Faculty Colleagues: Guidance for Senior Faculty, Chairs, and Deans (March 1, 2022)
Churn: Life in the Increasingly Diverse World of Higher Education and How to Make It Work (February 4, 2022) {Related Resources}
During the unprecedented 2020-21 academic year, the Faculty Advancement Network hosted a series of Inclusive Leadership Workshops that were attended by several hundred academic leaders from across the consortium’s member institutions. Workshops included:
Mentorship: New Approaches for a New Professoriate (March 19, 2021) {Related Resources}
Revisiting Mentorship: Strategies for BIPOC Early Career Faculty (March 11, 2021)
Keeping Afloat: Strategies for BIPOC Junior Faculty (December 4, 2020) {Related Resources}
Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on the Academic Progress of Underrepresented Faculty (November 20, 2020) {Related Resources}
Systemic Racism and its Impact on Creating a Diverse Faculty in Higher Education (September 25, 2020) {Related Resources}
Engaging with Students Around Race and Racism (August 28, 2020) {Related Resources}