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https://bio.libretexts.org/Sandboxes/paula_at_elmhurst.edu/PULSE%3A_Midwest_and_Great_Plains_Region_Workshop_2021

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Welcome to the 2021 Midwest and Great Plains Summer Conference!

Making Department Change Happen: Fostering an academic culture to value diversity, equity, and inclusion. This virtual conference will include time and resources to help you start developing action plans focused on diversity, equity and inclusion related change for your department.

Our objectives for the conference include:

1. Developing strategies for departmental discussions on change.

2. Developing strategies of facilitative [or participatory] leadership that tap the diversity of insights, skills, and backgrounds within a team and that advance toward equitable collaborations.

To achieve these objectives we will work together and provide:

Resources to support departmental change related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Skill development for facilitating the development of departmental action plans to enhance programs within their department with respect to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Group Norms for Conference participants:

1. Be present and be your best self.

2. Everyone has something to learn. No one is good at everything.

3. Everyone has expertise to offer and relevant strengths to bring to the group.

4. You have a right to ask for help and a duty to assist others in the workshop.

5. Be willing to experience a bit of discomfort; learning requires reaching beyond one's comfort zone.

6. Listen to others with the possibility of learning from them.

7. Science is a team sport. We need each other.

8. There is no "one-size-fits-all" approach

(norms 1-7 are adapted from IDEAL Center, Science Museum of Minnesota)
is a community of practice built around the implementation of Vision and Change recommendations in a 13-state region including IA, IL, IN, KA, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, OK, SD and WI. We have The PULSE Midwest & Great Plains Network 14 PULSE Leadership Fellows coordinating this network and hosting the Summer Conference, as well as a planning committee that includes previous conference participants. This virtual conference will include time and resources to help participants start developing Vision and Change action plans focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion related change for their departments, using facilitative leadership and creative problem-solving strategies.

The PULSE Midwest and Great Plains Regional Network is supported by NSF award #17 30553 RCN-UBE: Midwest and Great Plains PULSE Network - Building Institutional Capacity for Inclusive Excellence in Undergraduate Biology Education
Pre-Workshop Preparation Workshop Schedule Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Rubric Creative Problem Solving Materials
Virtual Group Workspaces (Padlet and JamBoard)

Poster Session (Padlet)
Workshop Assessment

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PULSE: Midwest and Great Plains Region Workshop 2021

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Making Department Change Happen: Fostering an academic culture to value diversity, equity, and inclusion. This virtual conference will include time and resources to help you start developing action plans focused on diversity, equity and inclusion related change for your department. Our objectives for the conference include: Developing strategies for departmental discussions on change.

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Timeline: Download, work on this document, then upload your version in column 3A

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Timeline: Download, work on this document, then upload your version in column 3A

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U_W4A0irltgXGBNBHbr5wd3oaPwY53R8/view

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MWGP - Final Agenda with Session Descriptions for Participants

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MWGP - Final Agenda with Session Descriptions for Participants

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MWGP - 2021 Final Agenda with Session Descriptions for Participants

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Support and System Effects

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We can solve this by... (with consideration of the pluses, potentials, concerns, and overcomes)

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Visit assigned posters and give feedback on positive aspects of the plan (pluses), the advantages or hidden opportunities (potentials), the concerns raised by the idea, and strategies for addressing the concerns (overcomes). Other questions, comments and suggestions welcome.

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Exploring Ideas and Solutions that are immediate, addressable, and capture the team's imagination

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In which ways might we ...

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If your team developed other Vision statement ideas that you may want to address at a later time, include them here

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Wouldn't it be nice ...

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20 minutes to visit assigned posters and give feedback on positive aspects of the plan (pluses), the advantages or hidden opportunities (potentials), the concerns raised by the idea, and strategies for addressing the concerns (overcomes). Other questions, comments and suggestions welcome.   Full Poster Gallery here.

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[Instructions Planning for Implementation]
Goal:  Use strategies of creative problem solving to plan for solution’s implementation (Action Steps, Timeline, Resources, People)

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[Instructions - Refining the Solution and Exploring Acceptance]  Goal: Refine your solution through consideration of pluses, potentials, concerns, and overcomes. Identify supports and system effects (dependencies and side effects) that could lead to acceptance of this solution.

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[Instructions - Formulating the Challenge]
Goal: Using CPS strategies, formulate a challenge question in form of “In which ways might we…?” and exploring ideas and solutions in the form of "How can we solve this?"

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1B) Your vision statement: “Wouldn’t it be nice if…”.

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1B) Your vision statement: “Wouldn’t it be nice if…”.

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[Instructions - Visioning]
Brainstorm answers to the question, “Wouldn’t it be nice if…”.  Choose ONE idea and write it as a clear vision statement, completing the statement, Wouldn’t it be nice if…”.

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Each team member should add a post (+) that includes your name & photo; then add one link to your university

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Persons responsible for making sure the action step gets done.

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Time, money, facilities, training, or administration support; URLs, citations and people/programs to contact.

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Upload your timeline from Departmental Transformation Worksheet (at right)

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Needed to implement the solution