This Toolkit accompanies the report “Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership: Approaches and Considerations for the Work.” It contains a five-step action planning guide to help leaders create a plan to build capacity for Shared Equity Leadership on their campus.…

This Toolkit accompanies the report “Shared Responsibility Means Shared Accountability: Rethinking Accountability within Shared Equity Leadership.” It provides questions for leaders to reflect on current equity accountability systems and think through how those systems might change when responsibility for equity…

This Reflective Guide accompanies the report “Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: Four Approaches to Structuring the Work.” It offers a set of questions to help leaders reflect on the current organizational structures that support equity work on their campus. This guide…

This Reflective Guide accompanies the report “Leading for Equity from Where You Are: How Leaders in Different Roles Engage in Shared Equity Leadership.” It contains several questions to help leaders reflect on their roles — both functional and positional. Leaders…

This report provides insights into VITAL faculty members’ engagement in sustained professional development (SPD) programs, such as faculty learning communities. Throughout the report, we examine how differences in VITAL faculty’s career characteristics (e.g., full-time or part-time, promotion opportunities and contract…

SEL is predicated on the idea that effective DEI leadership requires a collaborative approach rather than one that is siloed or isolated to a single leader or office. In this practice brief, we highlight some of the common challenges we…

College and university campuses need new and creative strategies for continuing to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals amidst today’s challenging cultural and political landscape. One such strategy is shared equity leadership (SEL), which broadly distributes responsibility for DEI…

This guide was developed from recently conducted research on the importance of structured support in STEM PhD programs. The project, led by Drs. Ben Zwickl & Mike Verostek, highlights the challenges students face — whether they are exploring their research…

At Michigan State University (MSU), a public research institution and a member of the Big Ten Academic Alliance and AAU, the College of Arts & Letters has been working since 2016 to improve the academic environment for VITAL faculty and…

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMA), a public research university, has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to improving working conditions for VITAL faculty with a 20-year track record of progressive policies to improve the support for them. This commitment is manifested…