A resilient department responds well to challenge and change, engages effectively in disagreement and conflict, and meaningfully invests in the success of the department and the career and development trajectories of faculty, staff, and students.
Resiliency promotes individual and organizational health and reduces dysfunction and harm. A resilient department is dynamic and connected, able to weather adversity, loss, and threat. In a moment when many disciplines and most academic institutions face increasing pressure, resilient departments are more important than ever.
This course features a 35-minute video in which Diana Kardia identifies key barriers to departmental resilience and describes five levels of resilience and strategies for taking your department to the next level.