CGU Spring Preview

Join us for our annual Spring Preview event!

Our two-day event will begin on Friday, April 14th with a showcase of current student work during the Realizing Equity Research Symposium and Kravis Concept Plan Competition.

Saturday, April 15th will feature our main event of Spring Preview – faculty-led class preview sessions where you can experience our engaging classroom culture.

Please note this is an in-person event held on our campus in Claremont, California.

See below for additional event details and to register for the sessions you'd like to attend!

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Realizing Equity Research Symposium
9:00am - 12:00pm

CGU’s annual Realizing Equity Symposium showcases research for positive social transformation from students committed to scholarship in equity and justice. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about how CGU students are advancing research on equity and justice, across all academic disciplines.

2023's themes for consideration:

Intersection of Differences: emphasizes scholarship focused on experiences and implications of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, language, nationality, social class, dis/ability, region, religion, spirituality and other forms of diversity. This theme considers research on the intersection of differences, theory and praxis, social barriers, as well as opportunity and transformation.
Power & Diversity of Representations: centers the power of representations through textual, oral, and visual means. It considers embodied ways of knowing as well as examines representations in art, politics, social science, humanities, education, STEM, health, culture, media, music, and other disciplines.
Society and Culture Contexts: examines the social, economic, political and cultural contexts that sustain inequity, including, but not limited to beliefs, structures and systems. Entries may focus on the evolving use of different justice lenses, emerging forms of scholarship with the potential for social transformation, or studies where there are historical gaps in knowledge or underserved and/or unexamined groups of people.

If you are interested in attending the Realizing Equity Research Symposium on Friday, April 14, please indicate below whether you would like to attend an in-person screening on CGU's campus, or attend online.

Friday, April 14 at 09:00 AM - On Campus Screening: Realizing Equity Research Symposium

Friday, April 14 at 09:00 AM - Virtual Webinar: Realizing Equity Research Symposium

Kravis Concept Plan Competition
1:00pm - 5:00pm

At this live competition hosted by the Drucker School of Management, aspiring entrepreneurs will pitch their business idea to a panel of experienced judges for the chance to win up to $10K. The finalists in the 2023 competition are made up of current students and alumni from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd, and Keck Graduate Institute. Their plans aim to meet needs and resolve issues in a variety of areas, including climatology, data quality management, finances, counseling, and health services.

All members of the CGU community are welcome to join us in cheering on the competitors. Attendees are also welcome to join us at the Celebration Reception after the competition (4-5pm).

Please check the box below if you would like to attend the Kravis Competition in-person on CGU's campus.

Friday, April 14 at 01:00 PM - Kravis Concept Plan Competition

Saturday, April 15th

Spring Preview
9:00am - 1:00pm

9:00am - 10:15am
Breakfast with CGU faculty and current students
On-campus resource tabling
Campus tours available

10:30am - 12:00pm
Class Previews

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Campus tours available

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Handling the Stress of Change While Reinventing Oneself with Professor Kristine Kawamura

Social Networks and Their Impacts with Professor Wallace Chipidza

Art as Experience and Information: Perception & Cognition with Professor David Pagel

Campaigning and Community Organizing for Change with Professor Bree Hemingway

Eyewitness Identifications: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly! with Professor Kathy Pezdek

Leading Collaboration Across the Public-Private-Citizen Divide with Professor Robert Klitgaard

Transdisciplinary Change-Makers: Justice-Centered Frameworks for Education with Professor Shamini Dias

Handling the Stress of Change While Reinventing Oneself
Kristine Kawamura, Clinical Professor of Management
Drucker School of Management

Most people go back to graduate school because they are seeking a change in their life. Maybe they are frustrated with the path they are on, the job they are holding, or the role they have been playing in the world. Perhaps they want to craft a new direction, go back to work after raising children, answer a calling, or finally discover who they really want to be. No matter the conscious or unconscious reason(s), graduate school offers a rich and deep opportunity to learn, grow, become, be, reinvent, and transform.

During this course, we will explore different strategies for reinventing oneself as an adult learner and purpose-driven adult. Participants will explore their values and sense of emergent purpose. They will discuss sources of stress they face in the change process and learn tools to build resilience as they walk forward into their graduate study journey. The content and tools provided in this course are part of the Create Your Future course (part of the Drucker Signature Platform) that all Drucker MBA students take during the first year of their program.

Social Networks And Their Impacts
Wallace Chipidza, Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Technology
Center for Information Systems and Technology

The class presents an introduction to social networks and why they matter. Emphasis is placed on the phases involved in social network analysis (SNA) i.e., data collection, visualization, centrality analysis, and modeling. An illustrative social network is examined to demonstrate the utility of the SNA method.

Eyewitness Identifications: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly!
Kathy Pezdek, Professor of Psychology
School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation | Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences

The purpose of this talk is to familiarize you with a scientific approach to testing hypotheses about real-world issues. This, in fact, is the mission of the psychology program and the Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at CGU. In this talk, Professor Pezdek will discuss the research on eyewitness accuracy and eyewitness misidentifications using the case of Kirk Bloodsworth and Kimberly Ruffner.

Kirk Bloodsworth had never been in trouble with the law, and yet he was convicted in March 1985 for the 1984 sexual assault and slaying of a 9-year-old girl in Maryland. Five eyewitnesses identified Bloodsworth at trial. Later that month, a judge sentenced him to death. Bloodsworth maintained a claim of innocence from the outset, but it was not until 1993 that he was released from prison on the basis of DNA testing that proved that he was not the source of the semen found in the little girl’s underwear. In 2003, in a cold case, DNA testing got a hit on the actual murderer, Kimberly Ruffner. Misidentifications like this are the leading cause of convictions of innocent people.

Transdisciplinary Change-Makers: Justice-Centered Frameworks for Education
Shamini Dias, Director, Preparing Future Faculty
Transdisciplinary Studies

This course invites you on a journey to become a transformative, future-focused, transdisciplinary changemaker and leader of learning. Transformation – changemaking – is preceded by the question of change for whom and why? In transdisciplinary changemaking, justice and positive futures motivate change. In this course, we address the wicked problem of education, a centuries old system designed to perpetuate oppression and inequities for a diversity of learners, woefully misaligned with learning science and current education contexts. We will work in transdisciplinary collaboration, guided by the essential question of how we can create authentic, meaningful, and deep learning experiences in equity-minded ways that prepare all learners for positive futures in an emerging and unpredictable world. Synthesizing learning sciences, arts-grounded perspectives, and frameworks from systems, complexity, reflexivity, and design thinking, we will explore strategies to transgress, transcend, and transform unjust legacy systems. In undertaking this journey, you connect the outer life of scholarship and teaching practice with your inner life of values, beliefs, and purpose to create an explicit and living philosophy and approach that will keep evolving with your practice. In learning about education as a transformative process for justice, you have the opportunity to be transformed in turn as an educator and leader.

Campaigning and Community Organizing for Change
Bree Hemingway, Assistant Clinical Professor of Community and Global Health
School of Community and Global Health

The world is facing a number of complex, wicked problems that affect the health and well-being of communities around the world. Addressing the injustices of health disparities alone can seem overwhelming. Collaborating with partners and the communities that one serves can help generate effective and innovative solutions to these issues. This course introduces students to methods for community organizing— drawing from several disciplines including public policy, history, cultural studies, communication, health promotion, and psychology. The service-learning requirement is a unique component of the course that allows students to build, apply, and reflect on their skillset for effective community organizing. Small, interdisciplinary teams of students will partner with a local community organization to complete ten hours of service learning in-person or virtually. In addition to the service hours, reflection assignments give students the opportunity to explore what they have gained from their experience and how the skills they have gained cross-cut multiple disciplines. Through this course students will be exposed to a mindset for collaborative policy change that can be applied in multiple fields and have the opportunity to refine and reflect on their capacity to support advocacy and community collaboration. The tools students will learn in this course can be used in several settings to address a broad range of societal issues.

Leading Collaboration Across the Public-Private-Citizen Divide
Robert Klitgaard, University Professor
School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation | Division of Politics and Economics

Many of the most challenging problems facing our region and our world cannot be tackled by government alone. From health care to education, from poverty to social justice, from urban renewal to international development, effective projects and programs often require collaboration across the public-private-nonprofit divide.

This course explores how to design, lead, and manage collaboration across the public-private divide. We examine theoretical approaches to appraise when various forms of collaboration make sense. We consider the practical challenges of making public-private partnerships work, using outstanding case studies. Along the way, we reconsider the meaning and practice of leadership and governance.

Art as Experience and Information: Perception & Cognition
David Pagel, Professor of Art Theory and History
School of Arts and Humanities

In this course we will explore and examine some of the ways art gets engaged today: digitally, physically, textually, and in conversation with others. The goal is twofold: to understand the ways art communicates with viewers and to discover how we relate to our own experiences. This class is a hands-on laboratory in which we treat our experiences of art as data to be analyzed—as information to be assessed, interpreted, and put to use. Weekly meetings, in galleries and studios around Los Angeles, as well as in the classroom, will focus on the ways we make sense of our sense perceptions: assessing the back-and-forth between what we feel and what we comprehend, what we assume and what upsets such assumptions, and what we think we know and what happens when we come across works that compel us to reevaluate that understanding of reality. You will have ample opportunities to develop your visual intelligence, deepening and broadening your capacity to engage works of contemporary art, their effects on people, and what that means in a rapidly changing and increasingly divisive world.

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