Holloman, T. K., & Huggins, N., & Brisbane, J. M., & Lee, W. C., & Klopfer, M. D., & Knight, D. B., & Waller, T. O., & London, J. S. (2024, February), Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I  Paper presented at 2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD), Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45492

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  Holloman, T. K., \& Huggins, N., \& Brisbane, J. M., \& Lee, W. C., \& Klopfer, M. D., \& Knight, D. B., \& Waller, T. O., \& London, J. S. (2024, February), \emph{Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I}
  Paper presented at 2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering \& Computing Diversity (CoNECD), Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--45492

Teirra K Holloman, Natali Huggins, Julia Machele Brisbane, Walter C. Lee, Michelle D Klopfer, David B Knight, Tremayne O'Brian Waller, and Jeremi S London.  "Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I".  2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD), Arlington, Virginia, 2024, February.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/45492 Internet.  14 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_45492}
  Teirra K Holloman, Natali Huggins, Julia Machele Brisbane, Walter C. Lee, Michelle D Klopfer, David B Knight, Tremayne O'Brian Waller, and Jeremi S London.
  "Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I".
  \emph{2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering \& Computing Diversity (CoNECD), Arlington, Virginia, 2024, February}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/45492 Internet.  14 Mar, 2025

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AB  - In 2021, the National Science Foundation put out a request for Phase I proposals focused on the development of Centers for Equity in Engineering with the intended goal of catalyzing systematic culture change. As a result, a project focused on developing a center focused on transforming graduate education throughout the College of Engineering (COE) at a single institution was funded. Establishing such a center is important because the highly decentralized nature of graduate education in engineering at the respective institution makes integrated reform strategies extremely challenging and fosters inequities throughout the system (recruitment, admissions, research, professional development, etc.). To unravel these inequities, this center pursues the political and social transformation needed to promote student success and well-being. Grounded in a Collective Impact framework and an action research design, our change efforts revolve around four focus areas: 1) expectations and accountability mechanisms, 2) access and resources, 3) culture and skill development, and 4) community and advocacy. Our Center leadership team includes every COE administrative position within our institution associated with graduate education as well as scholars and leaders in broadening participation and graduate education. Through coordinated efforts, the Center will reorient existing decentralized structures, resource flows, and decision processes and foster both bottom-up and top-down change processes. Our Center aims to create a more equitable and inclusive graduate engineering education where student experiences and outcomes are not predicted by demographic variables or citizenship. 

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss our approach to establishing this Center, focusing more specifically on our use of the Collective Impact framework in a higher education context. Collective Impact offers a framework that approaches organizational change through intentional cross-sectional partnerships between necessary stakeholders (i.e., college-level administrators, academic departments, and individual faculty members). Collective Impact outlines five conditions necessary for dynamic collaboration and collective progression toward shared objectives: Common Agenda, Backbone Support, Mutually Reinforced Activities, Continuous Communication, and Standard Measurement. In this presentation, we will discuss 1) the five conditions of Collective Impact, 2) our iterative approach to establishing each of the five conditions, and 3) key insights that we gleaned through our engagement with each of the five conditions. Audience members will walk away with a better understanding of Collective Impact and ideas for how to engage Collective Impact for creating systemic change in their specific contexts.

AU  - Teirra K Holloman
AU  - Natali Huggins
AU  - Julia Machele Brisbane
AU  - Walter C. Lee
AU  - Michelle D Klopfer
AU  - David B Knight
AU  - Tremayne O'Brian Waller
AU  - Jeremi S London
CY  - Arlington, Virginia
DA  - 2024/02/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I
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