A few announcements today! Registration is chugging along – if you haven’t registered yet you should. I also want to direct you to some information about hotels and travel. The weekend of our workshop is Homecoming – hotels are filling so you need to book yours now!

1) Spotlight on our diversity award.

One of the things I’m proudest of is that we are able to reimburse up to $500 of travel and lodging costs to any registrant identifying as underrepresented, or coming from a small regional or community college. Please note that there is nothing you need to do to “prove” your identity – just check the box on the registration if you identify in this way. I’m batch emailing folks every few days who do so to get you set up with Beckman’s front office so that reimbursement happens as swiftly as possible.

You also do not need to identify as a scholar or faculty to identify! Students, trainees, administrators, practitioners, and other staff absolutely qualify. Take us up on this! I know we won’t regret it!

2) Scholars in the news.

I wanted to share with you all a talk Dr. Nicole Cooke just gave on “Defeating the Bullies and Trolls in the Library” at an Inclusive Excellence research symposium. Dr. Cooke is a friend and colleague and her perspective was crucial in the formation of this workshop. She is unable to attend, but, as she says, “this is the talk I would have given if I could join you.” Her talk starts at about four minutes in after a lovely introduction.

3) Slack workspace and bottom-up sessions.

While we have organized four panels and one experiential session for this workshop, we’ve already created two one-hour spaces for four additional sessions. We’d like these sessions to be on topics that registrants care about and organize themselves. One of the ways we are initiating this conversation is through our Slack workspace – don’t forget to join via this link. Then check out #session-organizing to see the prompts I’ve shared and provide your own ideas! Also be sure to check out #travel-plans if you want to coordinate driving from nearby universities, or taxi/Lyft or meal-sharing.

1. Registration is now open, huzzah! Registration is limited to 90 people in order to be able to foster connection, communication, and small group conversations. Please do not hesitate and register today!

Please note that there is a sliding scale for registration (which starts at $0), as well as a box you can click to receive financial support for travel and lodging if you are from an underrepresented group in academia (e.g., racial or gender identity group, or from a small regional or community college).

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY.

2. We now have a Slack workspace! The purpose of this workspace is to make it possible for people interested in issues of academic incivility (both those able and unable to attend the workshop) to engage with each other. Channels so far:

• #general
• #random
• #workshop for conversation related to the workshop on Oct 17&18
• #session-organizing to find others with whom you could organize and propose a session
• #travel-plans to find people with whom to carpool, share a hotel room, or share a meal

Here is the invitation link to our Slack workspace. Please make sure to go through the tutorial if you are unfamiliar with Slack, and modify settings as needed (e.g., for email notifications, do not disturb mode). You can access Slack via web browsers or a free app available on Android or iOS.

3. We have updated the workshop schedule. Hotel rooms for Friday night are hard to come by because it’s homecoming weekend (p.s. we recommend trying the Hampton Inn on University Ave first because it’s across the street from the Beckman), so we are ending earlier on Friday to accommodate travel schedules out of our local airport CMI. Here’s the current plan, subject to additional change:

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