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. 

Our third annual event theme is Navigating Change: Turning Disruption into Direction

In our current climate of uncertainty, this year’s TerrapinSTRONG Symposium focuses on the experience of individuals, leaders, and institutions managing change and finding ways to push through fear and freeze to continue moving forward. Sessions range from the rapidly changing landscape of AI to panel discussions with those who have led institutions through change in the past to ways to creatively work through our personal responses to change through movement and the arts. This year's Symposium promises something valuable for everyone.

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
 

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.

The co-sponsoring units for the TerrapinSTRONG Symposium are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, and employment. To request accommodation, contact Leslie Krafft in advance of the event at lkrafft@umd.edu.

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