2005 ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP FORUM
Strategic Leadership for Diversity
July 25-27, 2005
Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel

Facilitator: Project Consultant: Dr. Kate Kirkham, Elsie Y. Cross Associates,
Funded in part by Fund for Rural America Change Agent States project funds

PREREADINGS
A Forum expectation is that those key administrators who make or influence system decisions of a state selected for the Change Agent States national project will come with some background in and commitment for diversity issues. The following readings will provide all participants with a common base for understanding and communication. Please complete them before you arrive at the Leadership Forum. For your convenience the readings are hotlinked below or you can use the references to find a hard copy.
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a) "Challenges of Leading a Diverse Workforce" J. Joplin and C. Daus.
Academy of Management Executive 1997 Vol. ll No. 3 pg 32-47.
b) Two chapters from the Elsie Cross book: Managing Diversity: The Courage to Lead
Chapter 1: "Leadership for Democracy: The Managing Diversity Intervention"
Chapter 9: "What We Need to Know to 'Manage Diversity'"Chapter
c) Two chapters from the book Privilege, Power and Difference by Allan G. Johnson
Chapter 7: "Privilege, Power, Difference and Us"
Chapter 9: "Getting Off the Hook"
d) "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See
Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies" P. McIntosh.
Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California, 1992, pp. 70-81
An updated copy of this article was sent to the CASDE Coordinator listserv on 6/29/05. Please ask your coordinators for a copy of this article.
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STATE ASSESSMENTS
Coordinators will bring a copy of each of the state data from the two assessments:
1) the Workforce Profile Assessment and
2) the Workplace Climate Assessment to the Forum. Becoming familiar with the results and implications of this data will be important information for guiding strategic planning.

GENERAL LOGISTICS:

Meeting Schedule:
Leadership Forum Agenda
• The goal is to move beyond personal diversity concerns and toward examining and discussing system strategies for change – practices in hiring, budgeting, promotion, funding, training; personnel needs; system policies; potential barriers; etc.
• The format will lead participants thru a process resulting in state-specific goals and identified outcomes.
• Monday, 9:00am- 7:00pm, 3 breaks & lunch;
• Tuesday, 8:00am-5pm, 2 breaks, lunch, dinner & evening in Old Town;
• Wednesday, 8:00am-2pm, 1 break & lunch. 2-5pm. State consultations with Dr. Kirkham
   as scheduled with the Project Manager, Carol Young.

EVALUATION

Additional Forum Information

Diversity Leadership Forum Participant Roster

Registration(pdf) — Due July 1  Download in MS Word

Project Framework for Change

Challenging Administrative Diversity Issues Scenarios Format(pdf) (MS Word) Scenarios Used

Dr. Kate Kirkham Profile — see link above

Elsie Y. Cross Consultants, Inc Profile — see link above

 

 

 

 

 

 

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