12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.

Lunch is available in the Grand Ballroom with a keynote session.

12:35 p.m. | Keynote: "Activating Your Leadership to Advance Inclusion"

When “DEI” is being mischaracterized and weaponized, how should we structure a commitment to access and inclusion? In what ways might we better leverage our organizations’ missions to lead transformation? How can we better center the needs of students and other constituents while fielding attacks on our work?

In consideration of a range of influences on the future of higher education, shared equity leadership (SEL; Kezar et al., 2021) can help organize improvements, support collaboration, and provide clarity around how to make advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion everyone’s work. In this keynote Dr. Sonia DeLuca Fernández will introduce SEL and focus on the potentials for new conceptualizations of accountability and how your leadership is critical to re/creating practices that support access and inclusion.

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