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Hello AOM members!

The Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee (D&ITC) needs your help in making the Academy more inclusive.  Print out the attached D&ITC program, bring along a friend, and come share your thoughts with us over snacks and beverages.  We want to hear from you, we invite you to participate, and we welcome you to join our efforts to help make the Academy more inclusive.  Here's a highlight of our sessions:

1.       Diversity & Inclusion Theme Committee - Open Meeting. Saturday, August 4. 8:30-9:30 AM, Boston Park Plaza, Cabot Room.  This meeting will provide a chance to meet the officers and members of the committee and to provide input into our agenda and plans for the coming year, during which we will be conducting and reporting on an important survey regarding inclusion in the Academy.

2.       Diversity and Inclusion in the Academy: A Town Hall Meeting. Saturday, August 4, 3:00-5:30PM, Boston Park Plaza, Cambridge Room.  This highly interactive session will provide a chance to learn about the work of the committee and most importantly, to share inclusion experiences in the Academy, ideas about how to make AOM more inclusive, and best practices at AOM for diversity and inclusion.

3.       Create Timeless Stories for Inductive, Reflective Learning: Native American Pedagogy. Friday, Aug 3 2012 1:30PM - 4:40PM, Boston Park Plaza, Stuart Room.  This unique and innovative PDW will be a story-writing and story-interpretation workshop allowing participants to experience a storytelling technique that has been the foundation of American Indian education for centuries. Native American storytelling pedagogy can be applied to business contexts as a way of invoking inductive, reflective, critical thinking in both educators and students.

4.       More than Meets the Eye: Sharing Our Personal Stories to Facilitate a More Inclusive AOM. Saturday, August 4, 1:00-3:00 PM, Boston Park Plaza, Beacon Hill Room.  In this interactive session, AOM leaders and participants will share personal stories to go beneath the surface of external appearances and to illustrate the complexities each person brings to the profession. It will be a chance to connect at a deeper level than is often the case and to learn how this process can deepen inclusion in the Academy.

5.       Balancing Acts: The Intersection of Motherhood and Scholarly Endeavors.  Saturday, Aug 4 2012 9:30AM - 12:00PM, Boston Park Plaza, Alcott Room.  This PDW will address work-life balance issues in the Academy, and support "scholar mommas" in finding support and navigating and addressing the challenges of walking the fine line between career opportunity, longevity, mobility, and productivity, particularly as it relates to motherhood at various stages of the academic career.

A complete listing of all our sponsored sessions, including date, time, and venue can be found here: http://groups.aomonline.org/ditc/. 

You can also subscribe to the D&ITC listserv to post and receive information on D&ITC initiatives here:
http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=DIVERSITYANDINCLUSION-L&A=1.

We look forward to seeing you at a D&ITC session.

Cordially,

Ed Ng