TerrapinSTRONG Symposium

The TerrapinSTRONG Symposium is an opportunity for faculty and staff to learn from each other about scholarship, skills and strategies to create a more inclusive community for our students, staff and faculty members. 

Each year, the TerrapinSTRONG Symposium will select a theme and solicit presentation proposals from faculty and staff with expertise in the area.

Collaborative Initiative with Office of Faculty Affairs and University Human Resources

Navigating Change: Turning Disruption into Direction focused on the experience of individuals, leaders and institutions managing change and finding ways to push through fear and freeze in times of uncertainty to continue moving forward. Topics ranged from the rapidly changing landscape of AI to leading institutions through change to creative ways to work through our personal responses to change through movement and the arts.

Leadership happens at all levels of the university. As a leader, by position and/or by example, how do you ensure that everyone feels like a part of the institutional goals, large and small? But also, how do our experiences shape our leadership experiences? What are the challenges and opportunities of leading in a way that respects and embraces who you are? 

We define belonging on campus as the understanding that faculty and staff members appreciate each other, feel welcome on campus, recognize themselves as important to the mission of the University of Maryland, and understand how their work contributes to the larger goals of higher education.  We are interested in bringing together specific UMD efforts to enhance belonging in the workplace in conversation with more general scholarship and research on the topic from any discipline.

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