New England HERC 8th Annual Diversity Conference

When:  Nov 8, 2018 from 08:30:00 AM to 04:45:00 PM (ET)
Associated with  New England HERC
New England HERC Fall Diversity Conference Registration 
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8th Annual New England HERC
Fall Diversity Conference



Boston University

Metcalf Trustee Center
1 Silber Way, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02215

Thursday, November 8, 2018
8:30 AM - 4:45 PM

 

Featuring Dr. Damon Williams
The Inclusive Excellence Tour™


Morning Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Damon Williams and The Inclusive Excellence Tour

Dr. Williams is a best-selling author whose research launched the Inclusive Excellence Model in American Higher Education, and his foundational books Strategic Diversity Leadership and The Chief Diversity Officer have become the North Star guidance of CDO’s and diversity champions everywhere.

A generational leader, he has been featured at more than 500 meetings and directly shaped the STEM, college access, leadership development, wellness, and workforce development experiences of 4 million diverse youth globally as the Senior Vice President and Chief Education Officer for the world’s largest youth development organization, The Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

The Inclusive Excellence Tour™ will provide a chance to strengthen your organization’s diversity commitment by engaging with Dr. Williams and the New England HERC community in a conversation about diversity, equity, inclusion, and change.


Afternoon Keynote Speaker: 
Dr. Frank Dobbin, Harvard University

Dr. Frank Dobbin, professor of sociology at Harvard University. His Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the Max Weber and Distinguished Scholarly Book Awards from the American Sociological Association, charts how corporate human resources professionals defined discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. 

With Alexandra Kalev, he is developing an evidence-based approach to diversity management, studying both the effects of corporate hiring, promotion diversity, and work-life policies on actual workforce  and the effects of workforce diversity on corporate performance. In related work, he is exploring how university hiring, promotion, diversity, harassment, and work-life programs can promote faculty diversity. Dobbin has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Safra Center for Ethics.

Featured Presentation:




Re-Thinking Mentoring: How to Build Communities of Inclusion, Support, and Accountability
Facilitated by Rosemarie Roberts, Ph.D.


This presentation/workshop is designed to start a new type of discussion about mentoring by describing the common problems that pre-tenure and post-tenure faculty members experience and why traditional mentoring programs fail to meet those needs. We propose an alternative framework for mentoring that focuses on needs assessment and shifts the idea of mentoring from a relationship between two faculty members towards building a broad network of support, community  accountability. The workshop concludes with a presentation of best practices in mentoring pre-tenure, under-represented and mid-career faculty.

Rosemarie Roberts, Ph.D.

Rosemarie A. Roberts, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Connecticut College. Dr. Roberts has published more than twenty articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books, co-authored a book, and is writing a second book.
In 2013, she joined NCFDD after her transformative experience in the Faculty Success Program in 2011. She leads the Post-Tenure Pathfinders Program and is an NCFDD certified workshop facilitator. 

 
Books:
NE HERC has secured copies of "Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education," and "The Chief Diversity Officer: Strategy Structure, and Change Management" by author Dr. Damon Williams for purchase offered at a discount price. Books will be available during the morning registration check-in.  Payment for books will be accepted in the form of cash or check payable to NE HERC.

 

Conference Registration 


Conference attendees in need of an accommodation, please contact Noel Bane at nbane@fas.harvard.edu

 


Important Details:

Registration is free of charge and open to all individuals employed at New England HERC member institutions. 

For a complete list of New England HERC Member Institutions, please click 
here

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, October 26, 2018.

**Due to the high demand anticipated for the Conference, we kindly ask that if you are not able to attend the event after registering, please cancel registration or email us as soon as possible in order for to transfer registration to another HERC member on our wait list.**

We look forward to seeing you on November 8th at BU!

Location

Boston University - Metcalf Trustee Center
1 Silber Way, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
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Contact

Ruth Molina
617-495-9154
rmolina@fas.harvard.edu