Meeting Theme & Sub-themes
ADVANCING INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE IN TIMES OF CHANGE AND UNCERTAINTY
Our theme this year is intended to invoke exploration of the complex issues and responsibilities that are important to us as Arts & Sciences deans, and the tactics and techniques that best enable us to navigate them. To stimulate thinking for presentations under this theme, we offer the following subtopics as suggestions.
Presentations related to the meeting theme need not be limited to these topics:
- The role of arts in times of uncertainty and change
- Disaster planning, response, and recovery
- Food and/or housing insecurity (students and faculty)
- Supporting students and faculty with disabilities
- Exploring aspects of student or faculty mental health
- Uncertainty in research funding and continuity
- Balancing free speech, identity, politics, civility...
- Minority Serving Institutions in the landscape of higher education
- Dealing with state driven mandates
- TItle IX changes and implications
- Working with legislators
- Campus climate
- Inclusion of contingent faculty
- Diversity curriculum initiatives and planning
- Note that proposed sessions may also explore the intersection of personal identity, physical ability, and or health with the above sub-themes
