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Author(s) Bio

Amy Dye-Reeves is Head of Library of Architecture, Construction, and Design at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. She is a Director-at-Large for the Association of College and Research Libraries for 2023-2027.

Keywords

book reads; outreach and engagement; program development; leadership

Description of Proposal

The poster will focus on multiple case studies from 2020 to 2023, ranging in interdisciplinary topics to highlight all lesser-known historical and contemporary women of color and ethnicity at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Each term, faculty members select graduate students within the Education Psychology and Leadership program. The elected four members were part of the graduate reader advisory book group. The group helped establish speakers, created discussion questions for the larger and break-out Zoom rooms, co-planned the weekly agenda for the monthly program, and helped connect with local and global partnerships. Each graduate facilitator gained experience in all areas of communication and delivery of large-scale engagement opportunities. The poster aims to provide information about a lengthy book-read program with successes and challenges to inform better how to work with graduate student leaders. This includes an introduction to working with graduate students, 2020-2023 data of the book read programs, graduate student handbook for expectations, and implementation of the beginning stages of creating an extensive scale program with graduate students and future conversations for performance amongst audience members.

What takeaways will attendees learn from your session?

Takeaways:

  • Compare benefits and costs, suggest logical alternatives, predict probable consequences, provide evidence to justify, find the best solutions, and deflect the most effective manner or communication solutions.
  • Provide discussion and examples of transformational equity, diversity, and inclusion strategies and experiences.
  • Group human and natural events into broadly defined errors and use the timeline to explain patterns of continuity and change in the success of book-read events.
  • Strategize to select appropriate people, gain new knowledge, identify the subject's bias, ask questions for refinement, and clarify information critical to understanding an equitable, diverse, and inclusive world.

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Follow the Leader: Empowering Graduate Book Club Leaders Within EDI Conversations

The poster will focus on multiple case studies from 2020 to 2023, ranging in interdisciplinary topics to highlight all lesser-known historical and contemporary women of color and ethnicity at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Each term, faculty members select graduate students within the Education Psychology and Leadership program. The elected four members were part of the graduate reader advisory book group. The group helped establish speakers, created discussion questions for the larger and break-out Zoom rooms, co-planned the weekly agenda for the monthly program, and helped connect with local and global partnerships. Each graduate facilitator gained experience in all areas of communication and delivery of large-scale engagement opportunities. The poster aims to provide information about a lengthy book-read program with successes and challenges to inform better how to work with graduate student leaders. This includes an introduction to working with graduate students, 2020-2023 data of the book read programs, graduate student handbook for expectations, and implementation of the beginning stages of creating an extensive scale program with graduate students and future conversations for performance amongst audience members.