b'Conference registration open from 8:00AM12:00PM FRIDAY7:30AM8:45AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST BUFFET or NETWORKING COMMITTEE ON GENDER ISSUES BREAKFAST MEETINGOpen to anyone interested in the programming of the Committee onGender Issues.9:00AM10:15AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS II TRADITIONAL PANEL CULTURAL DIVERSITY: Dancing with DiversityThe inspiration for this session is Vern Myerss quote Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance. This session will cover advertising and recruiting as well as what can be done before, during, and after onboarding to promote retention of faculty from under represented groups. Attention will be given to the traditional differences between adver-tising, recruiting, and retaining and the need to integrate ones efforts in all three areas. Special attention will be paid to ideas on how to recruit and hire in a regulated environment such as public institutions. Panelists will offer case studies of the efforts at their schools along this timeline followed by a discus-sion with the audience about each time point and what has worked or not worked at their own institutions. Discussion from the audience will be actively prompted so that we can all learn from each other.TRADITIONAL PANEL METRO/URBAN INSTITUTIONS:Building Community for Social Change and Inclusive Excellence:Curriculum, Outreach, and Applied ResearchAs deans in metropolitan/urban institutions, we are leading collages located in living labs where social problems abound. Inequity, injustice, and poverty, for example, exist not just in the community; they come into our institutions in a variety of ways. Our students struggle with their own social issues, and our programs work with people and organizations that face real and immediate challenges. Our institutions provide vital connections between the research and knowledge to help alleviate some of the issues and the people affected by them. As a result, we feel an obligation to help to transform the communi-ties in which we live and contribute to inclusive excellence. Universities can do this in many ways, including curriculum change, community building and engagement, and applied research.TRADITIONAL PANEL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS: Promoting Interdisciplinary Research for Both Undergraduate and Graduate StudentsResearch is becoming more and more interdisciplinary. Collaborations among faculty from different disciplines becomes key to the advancement of knowl-edge in emerging, complex, interrelated scientific problems. Funding oppor-tunities that cross disciplinary lines are now more accessible than ever. The question, however, of how to build interdisciplinary capacity most effectively Register at ccas201915'