Deadline: February 28, 2022
The Bowling Green State University ALLIES project team is organizing a 2-day conference on allyship and inclusive leadership strategies, to be held on May 19-20, 2022 at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. This conference is part of the dissemination aspects of the NSF-ADVANCE grant project “BGSU ALLIES: Building Inclusive Leadership Practices and Policies to Transform the Institution” (Award No. 1760389).
This conference will serve faculty, administrators, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows interested in shaping sustainable institutional change to reduce gender biases by developing faculty allyship and inclusive leadership programs at their institutions.
The conference will engage participants in sessions including panels, roundtable discussions, lightning rounds, training workshops and demonstrations, and research posters. Keynote speakers will present central principles and proven strategies for developing faculty allies and inclusive leaders. The conference schedule will also include numerous informal and semi-structured networking opportunities, allowing participants to connect with each other and build their own networks of collaboration and support. Participants will leave the conference with proven allyship and inclusive leadership strategies to take back to their own universities, as well as new skills.
The Call for Submissions is now open. Proposals for panel, workshop/demonstration, and roundtable sessions as well as individual presentations for lightning round and poster sessions are welcomed. Detailed descriptions of each of these five session types are provided on the conference website.
Submissions are encouraged from individuals or teams to share effective strategies and tactics to reduce gender biases and transform policies and practices during our lightning round sessions, and submissions for poster presentations related to research on allyship and/or inclusive leadership in the higher education context.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 28, 2022.
Questions about the conference can be directed to allies@bgsu.edu. For additional information about the BGSU ALLIES project, please visit the website.