Morning Session
Conducting a Comprehensive Campus Climate Study:
From Methods to Measurement to Dissemination
Dr. Roger L. Worthington
9:00 am - 11:00 am
The campus climate for diversity has become a central focus of efforts to enhance diversity processes and outcomes in 21st century higher education. Given the intricacy of the concept of diversity, as well as the complexity of institutions of higher education, the study of campus climate can seem overwhelming and fraught with potential challenges. This presentation will provide cutting-edge strategies for the design, implementation and dissemination of successful campus climate research.
This interactive workshop will highlight critical issues in the conceptualization, planning, design, implementation, and dissemination of campus climate research with the purposes of informing diversity strategic planning. Objectives for participants will be to recognize and understand the potential trade-offs between scientific validity, practical implementation issues, resources/ costs, and the applied utility of different approaches to campus climate research. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants should understand how the institutional contexts of fiscal, political, organizational, historical, human, and local diversity issues will influence their approach to conducting campus climate research.
Dr. Roger L. Worthington is Assistant Deputy Chancellor & Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU), where he directs the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative. In this role, he provides vision, leadership, coordination, and oversight to campus-wide diversity efforts. Priorities of the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative include efforts to increase the diversity of faculty, staff, and students, and to promote a welcoming and inclusive campus climate. Dr. Worthington is a nationally recognized scholar on issues of human diversity in counseling and education. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (JDHE). He currently is the guest editor of the special issue of JDHE on Measurement and Assessment in Campus Climate Research.
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Afternoon Session
MicroInequities:
The Power of Small
Stephen Young, Keynote Presenter
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Young’s book Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words defines micromessages as those subtle - and sometimes not-so-subtle - nonverbal messages that people send through body language, tone of voice and the way they inflect words. Micromessages signal at an immediate gut level how people feel about each other. Managers, supervisors and other leaders should become avid students of their own facial expressions, styles of personal engagement, body language and other nonverbal communicative attributes.
Micromessaging author and MicroInequities workshop leader Stephen Young is Founder and Senior Partner of Insight Education Systems, a company specializing in leadership effectiveness and organizational development services. Young leads the seminar entitled, “Micro-inequities: The Power of Small”, which examines “subconscious messages” sent in the workplace that often discourage and devalue workers. Previously, as Senior VP and Chief Diversity Officer at JPMorgan Chase, Stephen managed the firm’s diversity strategy worldwide.
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