Fall 2024 Engagement Executive-in-Residence Workshop

Designing Engagement for Equity:
Building Inclusive Community Engagement with Human-centered Design
A workshop with Jim Woodell, Ph.D.
CEO, Venn Collaborative

Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in the Altgeld Hall Auditorium

Two options:

Morning only:  8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

OR

All Day:   8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (lunch provided)

Apply design thinking and human-centered design principles to your research, teaching or partnerships, and benefit from a more empathetic, inclusive community-engaged project. You’ll leave with the tools you need to elevate your community partnerships, classroom projects and community-focused research.

Attend the morning session to learn the basics of design thinking. Stay for the full day to delve deeper into incorporating human-centered design in your specific community-engagement action plan.

Tentative schedule

Morning: Principles and Practices of Design Thinking and Equity

• Introduction and overview of design thinking.
• Understanding human-centered design.
• Applying human-centered design to community-engaged research, teaching and public service.
• Reflections on belonging, equity and inclusion.

Afternoon: Hands-on Workshop – Action Planning: Human-centered Design for Engagement and Equity

• Designing Equity, Preparing for Action.
• Implementing human-centered design for maximum effectiveness.
• Action planning to move curricula and engagement initiatives forward.

Register at go.niu.edu/engagementexecutive.

Hosted by the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development in collaboration with the Divisions of Academic Affairs, Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Student Affairs