ABOUT THE MEETING
LOCATION
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005
MEETING AGENDA
Thursday, April 20
5:45 PM
- Shuttle leaves Intercontinental Hotel for Reception
6:00-8:00 PM
- Welcome Reception, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice campus
(if walking or driving, use Entrance 8, near University Blvd. & Stockton)
Friday, April 21
8:20 AM
- Shuttle leaves Intercontinental Hotel for Rice campus, Kraft Hall 130
8:30 AM
- Breakfast/mingling
9:00-10:00 AM
- Session I
Introductions and Ice Breaker
10:00-10:15 AM
- Break
10:15 AM-Noon
- Session 2
Attacks on DEI: Panel Discussion
Co-conveners: Brian Edwards (Tulane). Panelists: Daryle Williams (UC-Riverside); José Luis Bermúdez, Texas A&M; Ann Stevens, UT-Austin
Noon-1:00PM
- Lunch Break
1:00-2:00 P
- Session 3
The Changing Public Opinion of Higher Education
Ken Goldstein, Senior Vice President for Survey Research and Institutional Policy
https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/leadership-staff/ken-goldstein
2:00-2:30 PM
- Ice Breaker # 2
2:30-2:45 PM
- Break
2:45-4:15 PM
- Session 4
The Changing Terms of Labor in Higher Ed: Graduate Student Unionization and the New Terms of Hiring Negotiations
Co-conveners: Rachel Kimbro (Rice) and Jennifer Johnson-Hanks (UC-Berkeley)
4:30 PM
- Shuttle returns participants to the Intercontinental Hotel
5:45 PM
- Shuttle takes participants to the Wiess President’s House
6:00-8:00 PM
- Dinner at the Wiess President’s House, 2 Sunset Blvd.,
Hosted by President Reginald DesRoches and Provost Amy Dittmar
8:00 PM
- Shuttle takes participants back to the hotel
Saturday, April 22
8:15 AM
- Shuttle leaves Intercontinental Hotel for Rice campus, Kraft Hall 130
8:30 AM
- Breakfast/Mingling
9:00-10:00 AM
- Session 5
Breakout Sessions
Group A: Non-Tenure Track Faculty: Assuring Career Paths and Best Practices; Convener: Tom Killian (Rice) Kraft Hall, 125
Group B: New Debates and Representations of the Humanities: Co-conveners: Kathleen Canning (Rice) and Carla Freeman (Emory) Kraft Hall, 130
10:00-10:15 AM
- Break
10:15 AM-11:05 AM
- Session 6
Research Excellence and the Teaching Mission in AAU Institutions
Co-conveners: Dorothy Hogdson (Brandeis) and Nicole Sampson (Stony Brook University)
See: Barbara Snyder and Holden Thorpe, “Universities Can’t Do Everything: They’re Pulled in Many Directions. A Refocus on Teaching is in Order,” Chronicle of Higher Education, December 15, 2022
11:10 AM-12:15 PM
- Session 7
Ice-breaker and Wrap-up discussion
12:15-1:00 PM
- Lunch
*Boxed lunches will be available as of 11:30 for those who need to leave early
Contact for assistance/directions:
- Elaine Palinkas Sanches: 713-454-2777 (Thursday-Friday)
- Kathleen Canning: 734-905-0148 (Thursday-Saturday)
- Kim Philippi: 713-252-2503 (Friday)
PARTICIPANTS
Deans from 27 U.S. institutions and one Canadian institution, as well as leaders form AAU, will be present at the 2023 meeting.