Module 3 – Insights from Engineering Department Culture Change Leaders (Part 2): Dealing with Resistance
Description
TECAID Learning Modules
Interested in changing the culture in your engineering department to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) for faculty, staff, and students but unsure how to go about it? Why reinvent the wheel when you can learn from TECAID leaders and participants. Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity (TECAID) is a NSF funded project (#1445076) to assist Mechanical Engineering change leaders in fostering a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) academic engineering department culture.
The corner stone of these learning modules are webinars developed with intent to help make your DEI-focused culture change work more efficient and effective. A Certificate of Participation is available upon participation in each webinar. In addition to the above resources, we include additional resources as appropriate.
This webinar series is co-sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Committee on DEI.
Module 3 – Insights from Engineering Department Culture Change Leaders (Part 2): Dealing with Resistance
In this 3rd webinar (28:32) we continue discussion with participants from the original TECAID Teams. These TECAID Team representatives share how their teams dealt with resistance to their diversity, equity, and inclusion change efforts.
Specifically, in this webinar the TECAID Team representatives discuss:
- Forms of resistance (3:29)
- Unproductive responses to resistance (5:50)
- Ways in which resistance is useful (6:30)
- Common sources of resistance (7:02)
- Productive responses to resistance (7:44)
- Understanding Equality, Equity, & Justice (20:00)
The webinar concludes with information about TECAID resources (27:00) available to help lead department DEI culture change.
Perspectives on Resistance PDF (Also, included in resources associated with the TECAID Model) >
Interview with a TECAID Team representative
Interview: Nancy Barr (Michigan Technological University) (11:46): Managing Conflict Constructively
In this interview, Diane Matt (the original TECAID PI from WEPAN), explores constructive dissonance (i.e. management of conflict in a constructive manner) in a way that supports the goals of the department team project.
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