Butler Center announces fall schedule

The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence has announced its fall schedule, which features the 13th Annual Conference for Assistant Professors and a half-day Courageous Conversations session on global development and global justice.

This year’s Conference for Assistant Professors on Sept. 15-16 will develop the theme “Persistence and Resilience: Envisioning what Institutions Can Do for Faculty.” The conference will feature a keynote and three panels, “Thinking Critically about Mentoring: Insights from Mentors and Mentees,” “Individual and Institutional Responsibility in Building Productive Work Environments for Faculty” and “Preparing for Promotion/Tenure: Building a Dossier.”

The keynote, “Navigating the Professoriate,” will be by Ka Yee C. Lee, Provost and the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, the James Franck Institute, and the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago. Registration is now open. Registrants have the option to attend the conference in person or virtually.

Continuing the Courageous Conversations series, the Butler Center and the Purdue Policy Research Institute will host a half-day intensive event bringing together experts, practitioners and the larger academic community to discuss peacebuilding and political violence prevention. The session, titled “Global Development, Global Justice: Leading, Engaging, and Doing Research,” will be held Oct. 3 at Dauch Alumni Center.

The semester schedule also offers three dates when the center’s Women’s Exchange Network-Uncensored will hold a WEN-U Lunch/Breakfast. The dates are Sept. 22, Oct. 17 and Nov. 30. Other fall events include workshops and a reception recognizing winners of the Violet Haas Award, Leadership in Action Award and research grants related to the Butler Center. A detailed fall schedule includes information about speakers and panelists as well as a summary of other Butler Center resources.

The Butler Center will continue with the mentoring initiative Coaching and Resource Network (CRN) and the Support Circle. The Women’s Global Health Institute is a co-lead in the Support Circle.

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