IDEAL Plenary Conference 2012
Friday, October 5th, from 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cleveland Botanical Garden
11030 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
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9:30 - 9:40 am Opening remarks: Lynn Singer, PhD, Deputy Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, CWRU; Principal Investigator, IDEAL
9:40 - 9:45 am Welcome: Barbara R. Snyder, President, CWRU and
W. A. "Bud" Baeslack III, PhD, Provost and Executive Vice President, CWRU
9:45 - 10:30 am Keynote address: Kelly M. Mack, PhD, Program Director, ADVANCE, National Science Foundation (NSF)
10:30 am - 10:45 am Introduction of the Co-Directors of IDEAL’s Six Partner Universities: Diana Bilimoria, PhD, Professor of Organizational Behavior, CWRU; Co-Principal Investigator, IDEAL and Helen Qammar, PhD, Director, Institute for Teaching & Learning, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Akron; Co-Principal Investigator, IDEAL
10:45 am - 11:00 am Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Bowling Green State University Change Project Presentation
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Cleveland State University Change Project Presentation
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Break/Lunch Served
12:45 pm - 1:15 pm Case Western Reserve University Change Project Presentation
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm Kent State University Change Project Presentation
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm Break
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm The University of Akron Change Project Presentation
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm The University of Toledo Change Project Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 pm Next Steps: Cross University Discussion with Administrators
3:30 - 4:00 Group Discussion: Learnings from the Day, Looking to the Future, IDEAL PI, Co-PIs, and Advisory Board Members
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Brief Summary of IDEAL
IDEAL is three-year $921,000 NSF grant awarded in September 2009 to Dr. Lynn T. Singer, Deputy Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Case Western Reserve University, to seed equity and inclusion transformation with five regional public university partners, Bowling Green State University, Cleveland State University, Kent State University, the University of Akron, and the University of Toledo. The goal of this innovative partnership grant is to seed institutional transformation at leading universities in the northern Ohio region by creating an institutional learning community that is empowered to develop and leverage knowledge, skills, resources and networks to transform academic cultures and enhance equity and inclusion at partner universities. This is accomplished by adapting and disseminating successful academic leadership development and institutional transformation methods developed by CWRU during its five-year ADVANCE IT initiative, Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (ACES), which continues at CWRU as ACES+.
Each institution annually selects three S&E Change Leaders to participate in the IDEAL leadership development program. The Change Leaders are supported by IDEAL with a $3,000 stipend. The Change Leader Teams meet four times annually, and also confer with an IDEAL Team Coach twice annually. Each team develops an Annual Change Project with customized plans and actions for improving gender and underrepresented minority equity in S&E on its respective campus, with the implementation of the plans aided by the Co-Director to assure sustainability. Senior administrative leaders – presidents, provosts, deans – from each institution will join their Change Leader teams at two Plenary Conferences (September 17, 2010 and early fall 2011) to learn about the change projects from the Change Leader Teams.
For more information about IDEAL or the Plenary Conference, please contact Project Director Amanda Shaffer at 216.368.8874