Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Conference

Help, I'm Wrestling with "Prickly" DEIB Issues! Those who are involved with DEIB often wrestle with “prickly” issues involving upper-level administration, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and curriculum. This session will give participants an opportunity to discuss sensitive and challenging DEIB issues which they have dealt with successfully or unsuccessfully. Participants will have an opportunity to learn and or provide feedback during the discussion.

What does DEIB look like when it’s rebuilt in your context, for your issues, with your values, within your cultural framework? This session will focus on adopting a culturally appropriate lens on work, strategy, mission, teaching, and research to fit the context of the landscape in which your organization operates. Understand how to build a strategy appropriate for your local context to serve your local community.

Across institutions there is variability in the relationship and order of operations between DEI strategy development and the evaluation of related initiatives. Presenters will share different approaches to finding balance between these two priorities. The ensuing discussion will cover both qualitative and quantitative methods that can be used to assess progress and ensure institutional accountability. Attendees will gain an understanding of the relationship between strategy and evaluation, as well as methods for gathering data to effectively assess DEIB goals and impact.

Institutions have responded to their local DEIB needs in many ways including the implementation of new course content and programs. Join us for insightful 7-minute TED talk-style presentations where three institutions showcase the unique programs and courses they’ve developed with a DEIB focus.

Join this coffee chat to discuss with peers best practices in responding to political extremism on campus, engaging in dialogue over entrenched political views, and managing cancel culture. Facilitators will help guide the discussion by sharing their experiences in responding to social justice issues, while opening the conversation for where business schools can improve.

In this session presenters will share how they are garnering support from administration, engaging alumni, leveraging corporate partners and finding support to implement and sustain their DEIB efforts.

The Great Resignation, employee disengagement, and high employee turnover are all indicators that there is work to do in better preparing managers to lead multigenerational workforces. In this session attendees will be given insight into how to comprehend the different characteristics and behaviors of various generations, how to implement multigenerational perspectives into courses, and how to design faculty training in this area.

What makes a classroom an inclusive space where the utmost learning and participation can happen? This session will focus on the fundamental concept of creating a space where students and faculty feel included and safe.