UAC

About the Workshop

Whether you are an individual or a team, a novice educator, an experienced educator, or anyone in between, this customized, research-based, practice-oriented workshop can help you use your entrepreneurial mindset to draw skills from fields outside of your disciplinary expertise, to help you expand the impact of your EM-based project! The ultimate goal of the Unleashing Academic Change (UAC) workshop is to help participants like you understand and leverage the context within which effective academic change can happen and to equip you with a suite of tools that can support your work.

• When:  June 9 - 13, 2025.
• Where: Virtual.
• Who Should Attend: Faculty at all levels and from all backgrounds working on academic change initiatives that benefit engineering undergraduate students (teams are welcome).
• Cost*: $1,500 per person.

*Registration cost includes workshop attendance, one year of coaching and consulting, and access to a library of workshop materials.

What To Expect From the Workshop

Everything you learn from the facilitation and coaching team and other participants can be immediately applied to your context and topics of interest. 

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate their institutional context to identify opportunities for change.
• Create and share a vision for change.
• Identify and develop strategic partnerships.
• Deploy appropriate communication strategies to address different audiences.
• Obtain buy-in.
• Lead teams.
• Effectively manage project risks.

Meet Your Facilitators and Coaches

• Eva Andrijcic (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Facilitator & Coach
• Julia Williams (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Facilitator & Coach
• Sriram Mohan (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Facilitator & Coach
• Sabia Abidi (Rice University), Coach