Leading Different Types of Groups
Understanding Generational Shifts: Quick Tips (Reading time: 6 minutes)
Understanding Generational Shifts: Annotated Bibliography (Reading time: 5 minutes)
Culture and Diversity – Quick Tips (Reading time: 4 minutes)
Understanding and Influencing Culture – Executive Briefing (Reading time: 9 minutes)
Culture is a complex social reality that is difficult to change, hard to define, multi-layered, and a major influence of behavior and performance. Leaders must attend to their unit cultures, especially guarding against movement towards toxicity. Cultural intelligence is critical for the leader of an academic unit.
Understanding and Influencing Culture – Quick Tips (Reading time: 4 minutes)
Creating & Sustaining a Culture of Excellence – Quick Tips (Reading time: 5 minutes)
Highly ranked units are almost always characterized by a culture that fosters excellence in student mentoring, instruction, research and service to the university and beyond. Such a culture usually doesn't occur by accident: it is the product of deliberate actions and cultivation of a particular mindset by both administrative and faculty leaders.
Andrew Alleyne on Why Diversity Matters (4:41)
Andrew Alleyne on Diversity and Productivity (3:57)
Andrew Alleyne on Making the Case for Diversity (2:34)
Robert Jones on Managing for Diversity and Inclusion (7:15)
Robert Jones, the tenth Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about Diversity and Inclusion.
Andrew Alleyne on Managing for Diversity and Inclusion (7:40)
Andrew Alleyne on Creating a Shared Vision of Excellence (4:50)
Michael Loui on Creating a Shared Vision of Excellence (3:30)
Joan Dubinsky on Organizational Culture (4:47)
Research Project Coordinator
The National Center for Professional & Research Ethics within the Coordinated Science Laboratory in The Grainger College of Engineering seeks applicants for a Research Project Coordinator. This position is a core member of the funded project team producing deliverables for funded research and outreach projects. It includes researching and writing reports, participating in instructional design, and developing video and other resources. View the full description here.
Post-doctoral Research Associate
The National Center for Principled Leadership and Research Ethics (NCPRE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering a post-doctoral fellowship for Ph.Ds in a range of fields, as we build leadership development programs focusing on those in research environments, with some emphasis on STEM fields. Full descriptions here.
Confronting Challenges In Academic Units Conference
Our CCAU 2022 – Conference Overview works with university leaders and faculty from universities across the country to address and work through specific issues or difficulties they are experiencing. A team from each campus will be coming to our 2022 workshop in Chicago, IL this upcoming March 30-31st. We will provide context on dealing with difficult situations in academic units, as well as extended sessions moderated by experienced university leaders to help each attending campus leadership team work through their own situation in a confidential setting with guidance available to develop clear, actionable strategies. Registration is by invitation only. Please contact us at ethicsctr@illinois.edu or 217-333-1416 to learn more and reserve your space.
HHMI collaboration
NCPRE is partnering with with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to create a professional development curriculum that equips all HHMI lab members to do their best research collaboratively and inclusively. Called "Labs That Work… For Everyone," this project will provide HHMI scientists with tools to develop and sustain a lab culture that fosters research excellence, productivity, and strong interpersonal dynamics.
HHMI DEI Program
HHMI has recently announced their commitment to investing $2 billion over the next decade "to increase racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in science and to foster environments in which everyone can thrive." NCPRE is proud to be working on one element of HHMI's Goal Five, to equip all HHMI lab heads with effective leadership and mentoring skills. NCPRE is developing a leadership development program for all HHMI lab heads and lab members, Labs That Work… For Everyone, designed to focus on practical applications of collaboration skills for creating and maintaining cultures of excellence featuring scientific rigor, reproducibility, inclusion, and integrity.
TRAGEDIES Video
Click here to watch our animated clip about the pitfalls that may affect you in the workplace.
AGU-Sloan Grant
NCPRE is teaming up with the American Geophysical Union to launch The AGU Ethics and Equity Initiative: Catalyzing Cultural Change in the Sciences with New Resources and Tracking Tools. This initiative, a three-year grant awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is designed to directly address sexual harassment and other gender discrimination matters through new educational resources and validated measurement tools. The new resources in this project are designed to allow for broad adaptation by the science community. Read more.
Defining a Culture of Excellence in Research
The principal investigator and other leaders play a key role in encouraging group dynamics that make people feel respected and included — or not, Elizabeth A. Luckman, C. K. Gunsalus, Nicholas C. Burbules and Robert A. Easter write. Click here to access this article and learn more.
AUDiT: Academic Unit Diagnostic Tool
NCPRE offers a tool for assessing the health of an academic unit, and helping troubled units return to business as usual.
Peer Review Standards in JAMA
We're proud to see in the Journal of the American Medical Association a set of peer-review standards for research integrity investigation reports developed at a conference we co-hosted with the Center for Scientific Integrity.