The University of Delaware ADVANCE Institute will host the award-winning University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) Players for two presentations on April 9: “The Chair's Role in Faculty Mentoring” and “Faculty Meeting: Navigating Departmental Politics.”

The Chair's Role in Faculty Mentoring - 8:30-11 a.m. in Perkins Rodney room. Geared toward UD chairs and administrators, this performance explores the chair's role in faculty mentoring. Developed to showcase positive and potentially problematic mentoring behaviors, this interactive performance will encourage chairs and other academic leaders to think through the ways that they might create a more positive climate for faculty mentoring, both structurally in their department's policies and interpersonally in the behaviors they adopt and use with their faculty colleagues. Refreshments will be provided; please RSVP here.

Faculty Meeting: Navigating Departmental Politics – 12:30-3 p.m. in Perkins Rodney room. Appropriate for all UD faculty, this sketch is an impetus to think through the challenges of navigating departmental politics. The performance presents a range of interactions between individuals in a department currently seeking a new faculty hire. Audiences can engage with the performance by considering what kinds of practices and interactions may negatively impact the recruitment and hiring of a diverse and excellent faculty.  Refreshments will be provided; please RSVP here.

About the CRLT Theatre Program

The University of Michigan CRLT Theatre Program uses a diverse array of performance arts to
spark dialogue among faculty, graduate students, and academic administrators on issues of diversity, inclusive teaching and learning and institutional climate.