Implementing Career Diversity in Your Department: A Lightning Round of Emerging Ideas and Practices

AHA Session 152
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Sutton North (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:
Dylan Ruediger, American Historical Association

This experimental session features participants in the AHA's Career Diversity for Historians initiative sharing innovative ideas about how they have developed career diversity programming, laid the foundations for sustainable cultural and curricular change, and better equipped their graduates for a range of professional opportunities.

After a series of brief presentations, the remainder of the session will be spent in small group discussions on topics such as connecting with alumni, integrating the scholarship of teaching and learning into pedagogical training, instituting curricular changes, founding internship programs, and more.

Session Abstract

How can history departments better prepare graduate students for careers within and beyond the academy? This experimental session features participants in the AHA's Career Diversity for Historians initiative sharing innovative ideas about how they have developed career diversity programming, laid the foundations for sustainable cultural and curricular change, and better equipped their graduates for a range of professional opportunities.

After a series of brief presentations, the remainder of the session will be spent in small group discussions on topics such as connecting with alumni, integrating the scholarship of teaching and learning into pedagogical training, instituting curricular changes, founding internship programs, and more.

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