UCSC AMP - 2020 Fall Conference
Photo credit: Alison Tassio
Thursday, September 24, 2020
9:00 am-3:00 pm, on Zoom
Registration
Register at this link https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJModeyhqD0oEtxOLLDxBySVz0jcrQO8dODN by September 23.
Conference Schedule
| Time Slot | Activity or Speaker |
|---|---|
| 9:00-9:10 | Welcome and opening remarks: Jessica Lawrence, AMP Executive Board Chair |
| 9:10-9:40 | CP/EVC Lori Kletzer (remarks and Q&A) |
| 9:45 | Raffle drawing #1 |
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9:50-10:00 |
Break |
| 10:00-Noon | Professional Development Workshop: Marie Logan, Director of Operations and Strategic Initiatives at UCSC Business and Administrative Services |
| Noon | Raffle drawing #2 |
| 12:05-1:30pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30-3:00 | Faculty Speaker presentation and Q&A: Nick Mitchell, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies |
| 3:00 | Raffle drawing #3 |
| 3:05-3:10 | Closing Remarks |
| 3:10-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-5:00 | Social hour: Online party games on Zoom Tee K.O. hosted by Bennett Williamson. Draw silly t-shirt graphics and come up with original slogans, then match other player's graphics and slogans to create a new design. Each round, players vote for their favorite combo. 8 players per round, plus audience gets to watch and vote. Click here to join |
Speakers
Lori Kletzer, Campus Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor
Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer, UC Santa Cruz’s chief academic officer and chief operations officer, is responsible for providing vision and guidance to the senior leadership team as it works to fulfill our campus mission and reach our strategic goals. She works closely with Chancellor Cindy Larive, and is the administration's primary liaison with the university’s Academic Senate.
Kletzer's priorities include supporting faculty in their teaching, research, creative scholarship, and service; ensuring the academic needs of students are met; seeking new support and resources for our academic mission; growing our commitment to serving a diverse student population; and fostering an inclusive community for students, faculty and staff.
Kletzer is a labor economist. Her most recent research focuses on the domestic labor market effects of globalization and policy responses. She has been affiliated with UC Santa Cruz since 1992, and has contributed to campus as chair of the economics department, Academic Senate chair and vice chair, and vice provost and dean of graduate studies. She was provost and dean of faculty at Colby College from 2010 to July 2017. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley and her undergraduate degree from Vassar College.
Marie Logan, Director of Operations and Strategic Initiatives at UCSC Business and Administrative Services
Marie has worked in the higher education space for almost 30 years. She has spent nearly half of her working life in pursuit of excellence within academic units by working as a department manager and subsequently as Assistant Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment and then finally as a Major Gift Fundraiser and Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at the University of Michigan; she then came to UC Santa Cruz as Assistant Dean of Social Sciences. Marie has since served in the role of Director of Operations and Strategic Initiatives in the Business and Administrative Services division at UCSC. She brings a wealth of experience leading teams through simplification efforts and is an expert facilitator and professional coach with a background in change management and Lean principles. She serves on the board of the international organization, Network for Change and Continuous Innovation (NCCI), and teaches courses through Learning & Development for UC Santa Cruz as well as collaborating with colleagues across the country to encourage innovation.
Marie is passionate about developing others and has served as a mentor to many team members throughout the years. She is now offering coaching to our employees through her role in Business and Administrative Services in order to develop more leadership capacity and employee engagement for the division and the campus.
Marie holds a BBA and is currently enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Texas at Dallas in the field of Leadership and Organizational Development with a concentration in Professional Coaching. While she expects to obtain a coaching credential as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF - the gold standard in coaching) in early 2021, she has logged over 170 hours of certifiable coaching experience and has successfully coached many clients prior to enrollment in this program.
Nick Mitchell, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
I trained in critical theory, black radical thought, and feminist theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I received a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness with an emphasis in Feminist Studies and served as a founding coordinator of the Black Cultural Studies Research Cluster and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective. After two years as faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, I returned to UCSC as faculty in 2015.
My research and teaching explore the social arrangements of knowledge and the ways that knowledge and its institutional practices arrange social worlds. Currently, I am at work on two books. The first, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University (under contract, Duke University Press), places the institutional projects of black studies and women’s studies not at the margins but the heart of the consolidation of the post-Civil Rights U.S. university. Examining the historical emergence of black studies and women’s studies as knowledge formations in their own right, and as sites to which the university has turned inorder to manage and negotiate the social upheavals consequent to the mass admission of black (and) women students in the late 1960s, Disciplinary Mattersaims to rethink what it means—and where we turn—to approach the university itself as an object of knowledge.
The second book, The University, in Theory: Essays on Institutional Knowledge, grows out of conversations that have developed in recent years in the field of critical university studies. As the field continues to consolidate its presence in universities through special issues in scholarly journals, new book series, and other forums, those of us who work in the field increasingly encounter the injunction to theorize the university—that is, to assemble a coherent explanatory body of knowledge that reflects a general grasp of what the university is, what it does, and why. “The University, in Theory” seeks to interrupt this demand for theory by posing a different question: What if we looked at theory not as a tool that offers explanations to us about what the university is, but as a complex form of evidence produced by the university itself? Put in this way, what we encounter in the demand for theory is not so much knowledge but a vehicle by which the university organizes its institutional reproduction. Collecting and revising several recently published and forthcoming essays that deal with this theme, the book invites theory to consider its own historical conditions of possibility with greater care and livlier curiosity.
