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Hello everyone! We hope this newsletter finds you safe, warm, and well. March means that spring is around the corner, a time of renewal and hope for new possibilities. We certainly hope that many of you and your families have been among the fortunate few who have been able to receive the vaccine. We continue to hold on to the hope of better days to come!
The current cohort of Next Gen 2.0 is in the home stretch of their participation in the program. After holding our sessions online in December and January, we decided to remain online for the remainder of the year. This was a decision informed by the cohort’s feedback. Strangely enough, being together online creates a better sense of community; people are able to see each other and thus connect with one another better. We are taking full advantage of the Zoom breakout rooms to foster greater conversations.
This semester, we plan to bring back Ellen Kossek from Purdue for her work/life bonus session, and this time, she will most likely incorporate information related to the impacts of the pandemic. Stay tuned for the invitation.
If you have some news to share, please email us at ude[dot]iupui[at]negtxen and we will be sure to include it in the newsletter.
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We are happy to acknowledge our current and alumni members for their latest accomplishments:
2016-17 Cohort
- Carolyn Gentle-Genitty: Awarded an Indiana University Bridge Builders Award, which honors IU faculty, staff, students, alumni and community partners who capture the spirit, vision, and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2017-18 Cohort
- Karen Sookyung Myung: Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at Children’s Bone & Spine Surgery LLP in Las Vegas, NV
2018-19 Cohort
- Breanca Merritt: Inaugural Chief Health Equity and ADA Officer, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration
- Silvia Garcia: Awarded an IU Racial Justice Research Fund grant (“co-construction of a culturally relevant college and career readiness program with Latinx families to catalyze social mobility and equity”); awarded the High-Impact Community Engagement Practices grant from Indiana Campus Compact (in support of this research project)
2019-20 Cohort
- Eugene Pride: Awarded the Inaugural 2020 O’Neill Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award; passed qualifying exams and advanced into candidacy for PhD program
- Valerie Strunk: Elected as one of six Delegates for the Indiana Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) to contribute to policy-making in that organization; interviewed by the Grassroots Legislative Advocacy Specialist at the APTA, speaking on the negative impact of proposed cuts to Medicare on patient access to many medical services, including PT, and on PT education.
Special recognition goes out to Jennifer Guiliano (2016-17 cohort) who recently obtained a Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program award. With this prestigious award, she will serve as Research Chair in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. In Fall 2021, she will join fellow researchers exploring digital methods of publishing and linking data on the internet through immersion in the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) project. Her participation in this project extends her contributions as a historian to work that supports Indigenous communities by focusing on how they engage in the generation, interpretation, and circulation of their own histories. Congratulations Jen!
Let us toot your horn for you! su dneS your latest accomplishments.
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In Times of Crisis, Remember the Stockdale Paradox
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” – Admiral James Stockdale.
For seven and a half years, Admiral Stockdale survived as a prisoner of war in Vietnam under brutal conditions. His philosophy for survival in trying times has become known as the Stockdale Paradox which is stated in the quote above. In simple terms the maxim is, “Have faith, but confront reality.”
A recent digital article from the Harvard Business Review, “What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership” by authors Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams, relates this philosophy to current times when leaders are learning to confront and manage the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
Survival psychologists who study survivors of disasters agree, “People who survive disasters are the ones who are able to regain cognitive function quickly, assess their new environment accurately and take goal-directed action to survive it.”
Why not eternal optimism in times of crisis? The admiral says you must have some faith in a personal philosophy, values, or purpose to sustain you, but the “optimists” lead people to pin their hopes on some imagined “rescue” which may or may not happen and that leads people into despair when the expected rescue does not come or is delayed.
That is where purpose comes in…either personal or organizational. People (and organizations) with an ideal or purpose or philosophy will take that with them wherever they go even when a former life or environment has been destroyed. Authors Groysberg and Abrahams assert, “Arguably, the most important job a leader has in a crisis is to consistently articulate this purpose, and connect each day’s tasks to it.”
“Man does not live by bread alone” and neither do organizations.
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The application portal is now open for applications to the seventh cohort of our Next Generation 2.0 leadership program. The deadline for submission of applications is 11:59 p.m. on March 14, 2021. Notifications of selection will be made the week of April 26th. Information about the program and the application portal can be found on this webpage. Please direct any additional inquiries to [dot]ude[dot]iupui[at]negtxen
As part of the National Women’s History Month observance on campus every year in March, women-identified faculty, staff, and students are recognized and celebrated for their achievements and contributions by the Office for Women and the Division of Student Affairs at an annual leadership reception. Guidelines and online nomination forms are now available on this website. Student nominations are due by Sunday, February 28th. Faculty and Staff nominations are due by Sunday, March 7th. Winners will be announced and honored at the annual Women’s History Month Leadership Reception on Thursday, March 25th, 3–4:30 p.m. via Zoom. The public is welcome to attend.
Funding is still available in the Emergency Equity Fund for Research to address inequities in the impact of the pandemic on productivity in scholarship and research.
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