Do you identify as a white leader in a nonprofit or philanthropic organization? Are you managing or engaging in DEI/race equity initiatives, or interested in learning more about how this work connects to your identity and role as an ally for racial justice in your organization/community? If so, we hope you will join us for a workshop with Heather Hackman, of Hackman Consulting Group, who spoke at the 2018 EiC Summit. “More than Fragility: A Deep Dive into Understanding and Dismantling Whiteness” is a learning experience designed for white leaders to explore how their identity connects to their capacity to lead and engage in racial justice work. While the history of White people’s use of fragility as a tool for deflection, denial and erasure of whiteness is important to understand, there are other deeply fixed dynamics in play regarding white engagement with racial issues that must be understood if we are to achieve racial justice. Knowing that Whiteness resides in the mind, body…

Tressie McMillan Cottom is an award-winning author, researcher, educator, and cultural critic whose work has been recognized nationally and internationally for the urgency and depth of her incisive critical analysis of technology, higher education, class, race, and gender. She was recently named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. The foundation for McMillan Cottom's first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, was formed by dissertation research for her doctorate from Emory University's Laney Graduate School. In Lower Ed, she questions the fundamental narrative of American education policy. In 2019, McMillan Cottom released Thick: and Other Essays. The collection has been described as “essential,” and the Chicago Tribune calls her, “the author you need to read now.” Thick was the winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.

Register by January 7 When faced with a gap between the status quo and desired outcomes, improvers pursue change. Improvement science brings discipline to your change efforts and helps you to recognize progress as your work moves forward.   Improvement Science in Practice: Finding Solutions Through Iterative Testing provides a deep dive into the “learning by doing” phase of an improvement journey. Through a hands-on, two-day workshop and an action period supported by small group coaching sessions, participants gain experience identifying, testing, and refining change ideas as they run Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles designed around their specific contexts.    Through this intermediate-level course, participants will:  Identify and prototype potentially high leverage changes  Develop concrete skills for learning through testing Build knowledge of how to move up a ramp of tests to promote change at scale Winter Cohort: January 8-March 5, 2021 Opening workshop: Jan. 14 & 15 Final Webinar: March 5

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A free two-day summit to engage college students in critical reflection on the topics of social justice, human rights, and inclusion, presented by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

Join us for our FREE virtual conference series where we will explore, navigate, and discuss unique challenges in service and volunteerism right now. Our star lineup of speakers will provide the most up-to-date information and expert advice on how to navigate challenges in this moment. There will also be plenty of opportunities for small group discussion and networking! Conference sessions will take place on the last four Thursdays of October (October 8, 15, 22, and 29) from 1 - 3 PM. Registration closes October 6th and there are limited spots available, so make sure to register early!

  A Collective Creative Engagement hosted by Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life October 5 to 30, 2020 A month long web-based experience, with live-streamed weekly plenary events, dialogues, performances and presentations. Throughout the month, Imagining America will showcase creative responses from artists, academics and activists around the world. #ReImaginingAmerica20.  

Presented by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health: Institutional and systemic racism are a direct result of laws, policies, and practices. Inequities have been systematically integrated into the fabric of our society across every sector – law, education, housing, health. As systems are built, they too can be dismantled. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) has emerged as a leader in exploring the role of partnerships in addressing structural racism. The intensive examines historic and contemporary manifestations of institutional and systemic inequities. The format for the “Introduction to Structural Racism” Intensive is designed for participants to look through the lens of equity and have a mindful and heartfelt real-life experience. Our training can be adapted to multiple formats – virtual and in-person. The overall purpose remains the same— to provide participants with a historical understanding of structural inequalities, systemic racism, and skills needed to work in partnership to address these issues. What happens at the end of a CCPH experience is also unique. We…

Aim Hire Workforce and Education Symposium and Fall Series sponsored by Ohio Excels and the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation About this Event Policymakers and business, education and community leaders from across Ohio are being invited to take part in a series of virtual workshops this fall to strengthen collaboration to better prepare Ohioans for success in education and the economy and to share the recently released report Bridging Ohio’s Workforce Gap.

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM To serve all members of our society, our colleges and universities must put Equity at the center of their work, not just as a desired outcome, but also as integral to the process of education - how we do what we do. To serve their public purpose, our higher education institutions must also commit deeply to Civic and Community Engagement in teaching and research.  Our faculty reward systems (including promotion, tenure or long-term contracts for non-tenure-track faculty, and post-tenure review) shape whom we attract, support, and retain as faculty.  This symposium will explore how faculty reward systems can be structured to support both of these critical and intersecting themes in higher education--Equity and Public Engagement.  How might we transform the culture, policies and practices of our reward systems to recruit and retain the faculty we need?  Sessions throughout the day will begin to address these questions and will include breakout sessions targeted at faculty and campus executives…

Addressing the Challenges of Poverty brings together all sectors of a community in one venue for networking and learning in order to create healthier, stronger communities, colleges, and schools. Early bird pricing ends March 1! Call for presenters is open.