The ADVANCE Change Agent course prepares academics and professional staff for social justice leadership that ignites change at individual, unit and institutional levels through professional development, networking and training.
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faculty and campus leaders completed the course over 2 years
course completers held both a tenured faculty rank and an academic leadership appointment
(e.g. Chair/Dean/Program Director)
COURSE COMPLETERS HELD ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
academic departments
administrative units
To be an effective resource and advocate for the diverse students and teachers I work with, I need to be a student of difference—learning from people with different backgrounds and experiences so that I can help them do their best work.
Undergraduate Writing Program, English
It has been helpful to know that there are others on campus working to learn and enact change in my local spaces and across campus broadly. Just knowing that inspires confidence. I am an experimentalist by training, but I had not considered working toward social change as an experiment. I think I had been afraid of screwing up. I'm more likely to engage in the process, simply by recognizing that we can learn from best practices, try something, learn from it, and do better the next time.
Interacting with people from other departments from the University and learning from their own experiences in a safe space was very valuable.