National Change Initiative
The NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance National Change Team focuses on creating and disseminating professional development resources for future and current faculty in inclusive teaching, research mentoring and faculty advising. In order to align and reinforce professional development practices simultaneously at Institutional, Regional and National levels, the National Change Team is partnering with institutions, disciplinary research societies and professional organizations. The Team is developing face-to-face and synchronous online workshops and trainings, as well as a Train-the-Trainer approach of dissemination.
Framework identifying three core domains - Identity, Intercultural, and Relational - which underlie inclusive practices in professional contexts.
Current and past professional development opportunities including webinars, workshops, short courses, and institutes.
Guides, toolkits, and publications supporting continued engagement in knowledge, attitudes, and skills associated with inclusive practices.
National Change Spotlight
In this video, National Change co-leads Robin Greenler and Don Gillian-Daniel provide a brief introduction to the Inclusive Professional Framework (IPF) and discuss upcoming programming. Learn more on our IPF webpage.
Introduction to an Inclusive Professional Framework (IPF)
Thursday, March 21, 2024
The Inclusive Professional Framework for Faculty (IPF: Faculty) is a research-based approach that helps faculty become more inclusive and equitable in their teaching, advising, and research mentorship roles. The framework focuses on three key domains: identity, intercultural awareness, and relational and communication skills. Join this session to explore the identity domain of the IPF: Faculty with time to think about the wheel of privilege/identity wheel, the cultural wealth model, and initial applications to your faculty role. Personal identity work is fundamental to being able to apply the IPF effectively, authentically, and with confidence. There is room to deepen the conversation as participants wish in this workshop. The exercises will help you begin to develop a transferrable equity mindset, and apply these skills to promote more inclusive classrooms and equitable advising and mentoring relationships.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 2-5 ET / 1-4 CT / 12-3 MT / 11-2 PT
Let us know if you're interested in additional sessions of this workshop.
Location: Online in Zoom (Facilitators will follow up with confirmation)
Target Audience: current STEM faculty, graduate students or postdocs considering an academic career
Registration will remain open until the week prior to the event, or until we reach our cap of 25 participants, whichever comes first. We will accept individuals on a rolling basis and waitlist further interest. Please reach out to Evangeline Su (esu6@wisc.edu) with any questions!
A Closer Look at Intercultural Dynamics and Relationship Building within the Inclusive Professional Framework (IPF)
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Are you already familiar with the Inclusive Professional Framework for Faculty (IPF: Faculty), or have you engaged in other identity-related professional development work in the past? Join this session to explore more deeply the intercultural awareness and relational and communication domains of the IPF: Faculty. An identity activity will be required as pre-work and the result will be part of the introduction activity to ensure that everyone is entering this workshop with a basic understanding of how their identity and other's identities impact their role and work. This workshop will go deeper into the cultural wealth model, multicontextuality, and how those impact communication while fleshing out the IPF: Faculty more so that application of the IPF is clearer.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 2-5 ET / 1-4 CT / 12-3 MT / 11-2 PT
Let us know if you're interested in additional sessions of this workshop.
Location: Online in Zoom (Facilitators will follow up with confirmation)
Target Audience: current STEM faculty, graduate students or postdocs considering an academic career
Registration will remain open until the week prior to the event, or until we reach our cap of 25 participants, whichever comes first. We will accept individuals on a rolling basis and waitlist further interest. Please reach out to Evangeline Su (esu6@wisc.edu) with any questions!
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If you have specific questions about Aspire National Change activities, please contact Shannon Patton (shannon.patton@wisc.edu).