Afternoon of Engagement

Join Us April 5 Afternoon of Engagement

On April 5, 2017 students, staff and scholars gathered for a university-wide reflection and discovery workshop, an Afternoon of Engagement. Utilizing story-telling and small-group conversations, community members explored what inclusion and belonging mean for our campus and generated solutions.

Creating greater experiences of inclusion and belonging is essential for Harvard’s community members to thrive and flourish; creating a supportive environment for better academic, professional and personal growth begins with conversation and discovery, and there is no endpoint in our goal.

Program

Welcome

Danielle S. Allen
Co-chair, Inclusion and Belonging Task Force
James Bryant Conant University Professor
Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Drew Gilpin Faust
President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University

Stories of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Danielle S. Allen

Kalan Chang
Manager for Overseas Financial Operations, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Katrina Armstrong
Member, Inclusion and Belonging Task Force
Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Scott Abell
Member, Harvard University Board of Overseers

Eden Girma
Harvard College Class of 2018

Achieving Inclusion and Belonging: One Decision at a Time

Frances Frei
Member, Inclusion and Belonging Task Force
UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, Harvard Business School
Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education, Harvard Business School

Archon Fung
Co-chair, Inclusion and Belonging Task Force
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School
Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School

What We Learned

Read a report on the Afternoon of Engagement on Inclusion and Belonging here.  The report includes lessons learned, summary of registration data, and thematic analysis of participant submitted responses.

In the News

Afternoon of Engagement offered personal anecdotes, suggestions

Staff ‘provided powerful insights about how we might do better’ This past fall, Harvard President Drew Faust convened a University-wide task force to examine ways to help Harvard thrive as a place where all members of its increasingly diverse community...
Afternoon of Engagement

A session to foster inclusion, belonging
Hundreds trade experiences, ideas that encourage more embracing, aware Harvard By John Laidler, Harvard Correspondent Over the course of the Afternoon of Engagement on April 5, participants shared more than 1,500 experiences, aspirations, and ideas with...
Afternoon of Engagement

Toward a more welcoming campus
University-wide Afternoon of Engagement at Sanders will relay progress, seek input on inclusiveness issues By John Laidler, Gazette Correspondent Students, academic personnel, and staff from across Harvard will have an opportunity on Wednesday to...
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Engaging with 'Inclusion' at Harvard
by Oset Babür As Harvard and other educational institutions have honed their admissions and hiring policies to make their communities more diverse along multiple dimensions, they have come to focus recently on “inclusion”: trying to ensure that all...
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Invitation to Afternoon of Engagement on April 5
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I invite you to join me in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, April 5, at 2:00 p.m., for an Afternoon of Engagement, organized by the Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. Tracy Palandjian, member of the Board of...