Building Inclusive Spaces: Meetings, Committees, and Practices with John McKnight
Friday, October 9, 2020
1 - 2 p.m
Zoom information will be sent via email prior to the session.
This workshop is designed to provide practical tips, tools, and skills for those seeking to incorporate inclusive group practices into campus meetings and gatherings. Participants (students, staff, and faculty) will benefit from imagining and reviewing group foundations, purposes, goals, agreements, assumptions, and internal and external communications. Consideration of group agreements (ground rules) and the role of reflecting on one鈥檚 own identity will be covered.
John F. McKnight, Jr.
Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion, Connecticut College
John F. McKnight, Jr. serves as Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion at Connecticut College where he also holds an appointment as Affiliated Associate Professor of Education. McKnight began his term as the College鈥檚 first dedicated chief diversity officer in July 2016 and in that role provides strategic direction for equity and inclusion work across campus. Under his leadership, the College engaged in an inclusive 18-month process to develop a comprehensive Equity and Inclusion Action Plan that outlines curricular initiatives, co-curricular programs, and facilities projects, including an effort to renew the College鈥檚 historic cultural center spaces. McKnight manages the offices of equity and compliance programs, gender and sexuality programs, race and ethnicity programs, religious and spiritual programs, student accessibility services, and the Title IX office. He holds a doctorate in educational leadership from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.