Description:

The Essential Skills for Leading Departments lunch series equips chairs with the knowledge and skills they need for success, including proactively working to enhance department culture and managing conflict to ensure the success and retention of faculty and staff, as well as of students.

Participants in this session will learn skills and tactics for improving department climate and belonging for BIPOC faculty and other underrepresented faculty to increase satisfaction, success, and retention.

Facilitator: Michelle Manno, Assistant Provost for Diversity and Inclusion