2020 GlobalMindED
The Future of Work is Diverse, Inclusive, Just and Equitable
GlobalMindED closes the equity gap by creating a capable, diverse talent pipeline through connections to role models, mentors, internships for low-income students, returning adults, First Gen to college and inclusive leaders who teach them, work with them and hire them.
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Today, we launch a feature story a day with insights of our fifteen 2020 Inclusive Leaders Award Winners.
Dr. Gutmann remembers the story of Hillel captivating her as a young girl. Hillel loved learning but he was too poor to afford the entrance fee to attend the House of Study, so he would climb the roof to listen to lessons through the skylight. One snowy day, he fell asleep. Wondering what blocked their light, the teachers found Hillel and brought him out of the cold and into the school. Destitute, an immigrant, family unknown—it didn’t matter. What mattered most was his avid love of learning. It uplifted his life and inspired his entire community.
Dr Gutmann was the very first in her low-income family to graduate college. She lost her father suddenly while still in high school, leaving them without any prospect of paying for her college education. Only generous financial aid made her life’s journey to college, teaching, scholarship, and university leadership possible. Fiercely devoted to the transformative power of education, she has committed her life to ensuring that any student—and one day, I hope, all students—with an avid love of learning can come out of the cold and into the school. When we make Hillel’s story come true, we uplift entire communities.
Join us in congratulating Dr. Amy Gutmann, President of University of Pennsylvania and GlobalMindED’s 2020 Inclusive Leader for Higher Education. Her interview follows below.
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What is your personal story and what challenges did you surmount to make your dreams a reality?
My dad, Kurt, was an immigrant who escaped Nazi Germany and helped save his family. He met my mom, Beatrice, on a visit to the U.S., and our family eventually settled in a small town (population 4,000), Monroe, New York. My parents worked alongside the nascent Jewish community as well as the wider community in Monroe, helping to build the town’s first synagogue.
Their example and my upbringing in small-town America, my family struggling to make ends meet, heavily influenced my life, from my public-school education to becoming the first in my family to graduate college, which financial aid made possible—a gift I have devoted my life to paying forward—to my leadership of Penn.
Along the way, my academic career was shaped profoundly by issues of inclusion. My first academic job was at Princeton, where I became the first tenured woman in the Politics department, the first woman Dean of the Faculty, and first woman Provost. All along the way and as President of Penn for the past seventeen years, I have championed racial, gender, and other important dimensions of diversity as key to creative and inclusive excellence. My life’s dream—made possible by educational opportunity—continues to be to enable as many people as possible to realize their dreams.
What is the best hope for the work which allowed you to be recognized with this award? What inspired that mission? What will make it a lasting success?
When I first arrived at Penn as president in 2004, 1 in 20 of our incoming undergraduates were first-generation and/or low-income students. Today, 1 in 7 are first-generation and 1 in 5 are low-income. At the same time, while our standing faculty has increased by 11 percent, the number of women faculty at Penn has increased by 42 percent and underrepresented minority faculty have increased by 63 percent.
I share these figures for two important reasons: First, growing inclusion in meaningful and lasting ways is steady work, what I call an evergreen priority. Second, success begets success. When we increase diversity among students, we lay the groundwork for recruiting a more diverse faculty and staff.
Similarly, a more diverse faculty and staff attract a more diverse student body. When we work on all dimensions of inclusion, we maximize our creative momentum. It’s a virtuous circle.
To make our success lasting, we must commit institutional leadership plus real resources. Take as just one example, Penn’s success story with growing student inclusion. Since 2004, we’ve awarded $2.4 billion in undergraduate financial aid. For aided students today, it costs an average 22 percent less in inflation-adjusted dollars to attend that it did fifteen years ago. And since Penn went all-grant in 2008, 19,000 Penn students—and counting!—have had the education of a lifetime thanks to financial aid. Those transformed lives are my best hope for the future of this all-important work.
What do you most want your colleagues to know at this moment in time about the greatest opportunities the world faces now?
The world is one year into the worst pandemic of our lifetime. We’re also engaged with the greatest reckoning around racial injustice in generations. At this moment in time, we may be tempted to focus solely on the very real losses and profound challenges all around us. However, I would want my colleagues and indeed all people to know that these challenges afford us an invaluable opportunity as well. By recommitting to inclusive excellence, by doubling down on our dedication to bringing more and more people to the table, we stand far greater chance of finding the solutions to these challenges, together. More importantly, our society—a more open, creative, and just society—will be that much better equipped to meet the challenges we don’t even know about yet. We must be ready and willing to seize such opportunity amid times of such challenge.
Here are just a few recent Penn examples among many: In November, Penn announced a historic $100 million contribution to the School District of Philadelphia to remediate environmental hazards in public schools. This joins our years-long investment in the District’s top-performing Penn Alexander School, our deepened commitment to the Henry C. Lea Elementary School, and more than 500 Penn-led activities in 248 schools in every catchment area throughout the School District.
Before the pandemic, Philadelphia suffered a health care blow with the closure of Hahnemann University Hospital. When we learned that another local hospital, Mercy Hospital, may soon follow, Penn Medicine led an area
partnership in saving it, keeping urgently-needed beds and frontline health care heroes working at the moment Philadelphians need them most.
Soon after, Penn’s School of Dental Medicine celebrated the opening of our new Care Center for Persons with Disabilities, the only such resource in a region where 16 percent of our local family, friends, and neighbors face barriers to good dental care due to a disability.
We have the livelihoods of our community foremost in mind as well. Soon after the full pandemic struck, Penn and Penn Medicine rolled out a series of new initiatives totaling $5 million in emergency financial assistance to employees, contract workers, and small businesses in University City.
And over the summer Penn announced our new Projects for Progress program. The latest step in our longstanding commitment to civic engagement, it’s an innovative new funding program, with $2 million to start, that will support Penn student, faculty, and staff projects focused on addressing systemic racism, educational equity, and health disparities. Our inaugural proposals will be considered this spring.
What are your inclusive goals as a global citizen and GlobalMindED 2020 Inclusive Award winner?
To continue opening the door of educational opportunity for students and their families from all walks of life. To continue recruiting and supporting the most diverse and preeminent scholars in the world. And to continue fostering the types of innovative invention and impactful engagement that will help humanity overcome pandemics and cure the historic ills of racism. Just before the world lost Civil Rights champion and Penn Honorary Degree recipient, U.S. Representative John Lewis, he implored us to continue to get into that “good trouble.”
I cannot think of a more powerful force for doing exactly that than a world-class, maximally inclusive education.
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GlobalMindED and the SDG Impact Fund are delighted to announce GlobalMindED's Donor Advised Fund. 2020 is the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations and the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Women's Declaration and Action Platform. Many from around the world are thinking of 2020 as the gateway to our most vital decade for delivering equity, the Sustainable Development Goals, and a world where all can thrive. Our key time for these outcomes is 2020-2030.
GlobalMindED DAF and the SDG Impact Fund are a powerful combined force for good as the 2019 year comes to a close and we reflect on the gratitude and the commitments we make to the causes we care most about. The DAF offers immense power and flexibility for giving prior to the year's end as you plant seeds of generous intention for 2020 and the decade ahead.
When you contribute to GlobalMindED, you support First Gen students. We have served more than 400 students by connecting them to role models, mentors, internships and jobs. Your generous support will allow us to take our work 10x and reach these talented students at scale who lack the resources and support we provide. Your support also helps teachers who can't afford the conference fees, faculty at colleges which are under resourced and students who persist at those universities despite food insecurity and/or housing insecurity.
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Courageous Conversations Catalyzing Change in Foundations & Funding: Janet Salazar; President, Foundation for the Support of the UN, Dr. Lisa Roy; Director of Program Development, Buffett Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska, Toya Wall; Senior Program Officer, Ascendium Education Group, Matt Horton; Director, Milken Institute Center for Regional Economics, and Luis Duarte; Partner, Imaginable Futures
Tech Leaders Driving Inclusive Work During and After COVID What is Needed and How to Measure Impact: Suraya Yahaya, Esq., Founder & CEO, Khazana, Inc, Dr. Jessica Rowland Williams; Director, Every Learner Everywhere, Helen Young Hayes; Founder & CEO, ActivateIT, Karen Worstell; Founder and CEO, WRiskGroup, Terrill Glass; Director of Engineering, Charter Communications, and Sarah Mark; Workforce Development Program Manager for People with Disabilities, Salesforce
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: The Higher Ed Experience for Veterans and Native Americans: Dr. Ryan Ross; Assoc. Vice Chancellor Student Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion, Colorado Community College System, Leanne Wheeler; Principal Wheeler Advisory Group, Dr. Joseph Gladstone; Business Management Professor, University of New Haven, Dr. Aaron Cortes Minor; Director of STEM initiatives Northeastern Illinois University, and Dr. Michael Clement; Department Chair, Accounting University of Texas, Austin
Failure is Not an Option: Inclusive Leaders Tackle STEM Barriers Exacerbated by the 2020 Crises. Toi Massey President and CEO ANM Innovative Solutions, Tim Podkul Director, Principal Research Scientist SRI International, Lt. Col. Paul Deaderick (ret) Senior Project Leader The Aerospace Corporation, Christina Korp CEO & Executive Producer Purpose Entertainment, Dr. Calvin Mackey Founder & CEO STEM NOLA, and Clay Gloster Dean of the Graduate College North Carolina A&T State University
Inclusive Entrepreneurship: Funding First Gen and BIPOC Start Ups Launching with Investor, In-Kind, and Contest Dollars David Lopez; Co-founder/CEO, Internalyze, Juan Zavala; Senior Associate, New Markets Venture Partners, Monica Groves; Manager, XPRIZE, Dr. Murdoc Khaleghi; Medical Director, WellnessFX, and Praful Shah; Advisory Board Chairman, Principium Investments
Catalyzing Change in Health: Equity for Native, Rural, and Veterans During and Beyond COVID-19: Dr. Pierre Theodore; VP Global External Innovation, Johnson & Johnson, Dr. Jandel Allen-Davis; President & CEO, Craig Hospital, Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami, PhD; CEO, Founder, CELL-MED, Dr. Sriram Shamasunder; Assoc. Professor, UCSF Medical Center, Dr. Mary Owen (Tlingi); Dir., Center of American Indian & Minority Health, UMN President, Assoc. of American Indian Physicians
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: African American College Presidents Share Realities Part II: Dr. Ryan Ross; Assoc. V. Chancellor Student Affairs, Equity, & Inclusion, Colorado Community College System moderates. Panelists include Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston President, Norfolk State University, Dr. E. LaBrent Chrite President, Bethune-Cookman University, Dr. Annette Parker President, South Central College, Minnesota State, and Dr. Michael Torrence President, Motlow State College
Courageous Conversations: Catalyzing Change in Health: Dr. Monique Butler; Chief Medical Officer, Swedish Medical Center, Samuel Yamoah, Jr.; Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Dr. Georges Benjamin; Executive Director, American Public Health Association, Dr. J. Nadine Gracia; Exec. Vice President & COO, Trust for America’s Health, Dr. Karen McNeil-Miller; CEO, Colorado Health Foundation, Dr. Pierre Theodore; VP Global External Innovation, Johnson & Johnson, and Dr. Elena Rios; President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association.
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Diverse College Presidents Talk About First 6 Weeks of School: Dr. Ryan Ross; Assoc. V. Chancellor Student Affairs, Equity, & Inclusion, Colorado Community College System moderates. Panelists include Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston President, Norfolk State University, Dr. E. LaBrent Chrite President, Bethune-Cookman University, Dr. Annette Parker President, South Central College, Minnesota State, Dr. Miles Davis President, Linfield University, and Dr. Michael Torrence President, Motlow State College
Hispanic Language Heritage Language Assets for Career Preparedness: Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) and GlobalMindED, moderated by Lorena Orozco McElwain; OELA, Panelists include: Carol Carter; GlobalMindED, Felícita Solá-Carter; Excellence in Government Program, Oscar Fraire; University of Colorado Denver student, Patty Lopez; Intel Corporation, and Adrian Rosado; Cultural Clarity Experience.
Hispanic Language Heritage: Retention of Heritage Culture and Language(s) US Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) and GlobalMindED, and panelists celegrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. Lorena Orozco and Supreet Anand of OELA, Cristina Alfaro; San Diego State University, Luis Benitez; VF Corporation, Clotilde Dedecker; Circle of Women, Joe Garcia; Ohkay OwinghTribe, and Dr.Joel Comez; Center for Applied Logistics
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: A Conversation on Race, Isms, Justice, Moving Forward and the Role White People Need to Play: Ryan Ross; Associate Vice Chancellor: Student Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion, Colorado Community College System leads the conversation with Clifton Taulbert; President and CEO, Freemount Corporation and Roots Java Coffee, Javon Brame; Dean of Students, Arapahoe Community College, Chelsea Williams; Founder & CEO, College Code LLC, and Representative Leslie Herod; Legislator, Colorado General Assembly
Equity in Engineering Programs: Priming the STEM Pipeline During and After COVID-19: Dr. Dora Renaud, Sr. Director of Academic Programs & Professional Development, SHPE: Leading Hispanics in STEM, Melanie Suarez, Student, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Mechanical Engineering, Nicolas Valencia Diaz, Student, Florida International University, Biomedical Engineering, Sophia Plata, PhD Student, University of Southern California, Environmental Engineering
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THE FLYOVER NATION
Energy's Role in a Troubled Heartland
By J.C. Whorton
A unique and timely discussion of the challenging issues facing the country’s troubled Heartland.
Since the beginning of westward expansion into the Heartland’s vast regions, natural resource development has played a historic role in shaping its communities. Today, domestic oil and gas development offers one of the strongest prospects for the Heartland’s present and future prosperity as well as the nation’s re-emergence as a dominant player in the global energy economy.
The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, two circumstances that are universally disrupting international geopolitical order. The earth has a finite supply of natural resources and a rapidly growing and over consuming population.
As America positions itself for a very uncertain and constantly evolving global marketplace, will the Heartland become America’s “great connector” or “great divide”?
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J.C. Whorton is a senior level energy and financial professional with over forty years of essential experience. Having a ranching and Native American heritage, Mr. Whorton is a strong advocate for rural education and economic development initiatives.
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Links to read about Inclusive Leaders, many of whom are African American and people of color:
Curated sessions from GlobalMindED 2020 YouTube channel:
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From the Center for Positive Organizations:
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From the World Academy of Art & Science and UN; Geneva Global Leadership in the 21st Century econference:
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Listen here for an interview with Pam Newkirk, GlobalMindED speaker and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion- Dollar Business.
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Meet GlobalMindED Founder, Carol Carter as interviewed by Tim Moore on his podcast Success Made to Last: From Success to Significance
Listen to Part 1 of Carol's interview
Listen to Part 2 of Carol's interview
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Recent GlobalMindED Newsletter Profiles:
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Since 2006 when the flagship TGR Learning Lab opened its doors in Anaheim, CA, TGR Foundation has had a lot to celebrate, including its most recent milestone of one million students impacted by TGR EDU: Explore, alone.
Developed in partnership with Discovery Education, TGR EDU: Explore is a free digital resource library that offers interactive web experiences, lesson plans, training videos and tools for educators, students and families to explore new disciplines and gain skills for a modern and expanding workforce.
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As you start the New Year, are you looking for ways to re-engineer your classroom culture? Check out Designing the Future: How Engineering Builds Creative Critical Thinking in the Classroom. The associated website has lots of activities, projects, and resources you can implement immediately. Our fall workshops using the book as a roadmap for change have been highly successful. Start designing the future today - try using the customized Study Guide for a book study in your PLC. Or contact ProjectEngin or Solution Tree to learn how you can bring professional development based on Ann's book to your school, district, or conference.
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