Drawing from research and practice, I regularly facilitate workshops on a range academic workforce topics, including:
Feedback from workshop participants:
"After attending Dr. Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper’s impactful workload equity workshop, department chairs were inspired to initiate tangible actions within their departments. These actions include reviewing workload and committee assignments, advocating for clearer guidelines and workload dashboards, developing transparent policies, and engaging in faculty conversations to address workload inequities. The workshop’s influence will lead to concrete steps toward creating a more transparent, equitable, and inclusive academic environment for departments served by our ADVANCE Joining Forces Projects at four midwestern institutions."
Dr. Canan Bilen-Green, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Equity, North Dakota State University; PI, ADVANCE Midwest Partnership
- Addressing faculty work environment issues such as faculty hiring, workload, evaluation, promotion and tenure, mentoring, graduate admissions, and everyday workplace interactions. Recent talks include:
- Making Workload Fair: What Chairs Can Do
- Making Service Work Fair: An Equity-Minded Approach
- Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads: Data-Driven, Strategic, and By Design
- Creating Inclusive Faculty Job Advertisements
- Effective and Equitable Faculty Evaluation
- Inclusive Faculty Hiring Practices
- Postdoctoral to Tenure-Track Faculty Hiring
- Inclusive Faculty Mentoring
- Enhancing Work-Life Integration by addressing issues institutional and departmental culture, policy, and practice (including dual-career hiring), as well as individual faculty time management, saying yes and no strategically, and professional goal-setting. Recent talks include:
- Addressing Faculty and Staff Burnout
- Feeling Underwater: How Faculty Can Align Time to Priorities
- Dual-Career Hiring Practices
- Saying Yes and No Strategically
- Increasing Effectiveness, Equity, and Fairness throughout the academic workforce using strategic planning, assessments, and other evidence-based practices.
Feedback from workshop participants:
"After attending Dr. Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper’s impactful workload equity workshop, department chairs were inspired to initiate tangible actions within their departments. These actions include reviewing workload and committee assignments, advocating for clearer guidelines and workload dashboards, developing transparent policies, and engaging in faculty conversations to address workload inequities. The workshop’s influence will lead to concrete steps toward creating a more transparent, equitable, and inclusive academic environment for departments served by our ADVANCE Joining Forces Projects at four midwestern institutions."
Dr. Canan Bilen-Green, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Equity, North Dakota State University; PI, ADVANCE Midwest Partnership