310 Rhodes
8:30 AM-4:30 PM, including light vegetarian lunch.

Sponsored by Academic HR, this day-long session with the Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble explores how to address conflict and maintain healthy relationships in an inclusive climate.

Faculty members going about the business of teaching, research, and outreach typically understand what brings about conflict in their role as program/laboratory directors, principal investigators, committee chairs and know that it important to achieve a resolution. However, it is often challenging for academics to address conflict and simultaneously maintain productive relationships and an inclusive climate.

The program works together with the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble to enact common conflicts such as: difficulties with a graduate student or post doc, conflict among a teaching team, lab group or program, performance issues with subordinates, different expectations across a research collaboration, and conflicts with a more senior or more influential faculty member. These performances serve to spark discussion and skill development for academics.

Program Goals

• Explore an approach to conflict resolution that recognizes and addresses both individual and institutional needs.
• Practice using the approach with cases similar in situation and degree of emotion, which you might encounter.
• Become acquainted with university resources available to help you address conflict.

To register, contact Pam Strausser at ps34@cornell.edu or 607-254-1525.