Butler Center session to focus on work climate

The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence is inviting faculty, staff and students to a Work Climate Series session from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at Dauch Alumni Center.

This session is structured as a conversation/discussion with leaders from across colleges. The leaders will offer a brief description of their responsibilities and how those relate to understanding culture, colleagues and support, and how they interface with other leaders. Realistic expectations of how their position functions and where additional support may reside will be discussed through various vignettes.

Discussions in scholarly literature as well as within professional associations and institutions of higher education point to the importance and need for gender parity in leadership. Leaders typically have power, high status and privilege, and leadership in one area opens doors to other opportunities, which further amplify the perks of leadership. Considering that the project of diversifying leadership is in progress, the focus of this panel session is on how current leaders can understand, respond and support underrepresented faculty.

The speakers for this session are Susan Faircloth, professor and director, School of Education, RISE Center Scholar, Colorado State University; and Olga M. Welch, professor of instructional leadership emerita and dean emerita, School of Education, Duquesne University.

All attendees must adhere to Protect Purdue Guidelines. Online registration is available.

For more information, contact butlercenter@purdue.edu.