Announcing the Orlando L. Taylor Excellence in Scholarship Award – Nominations due November 15

2024-10-03T13:25:51-07:00

Orlando L. Taylor, Ph.D. Thanks to the generosity of donors, the Marie Fielder Center is pleased to announce the Orlando L. Taylor Excellence in Scholarship Award. The award will be made annually to student or alumni recipients whose research and/or writing exemplifies the concern with education, leadership, and democracy that characterized the career of Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, for whom the scholarship is named. The award will recognize a student or alum whose work appeared in a peer-reviewed publication in the previous calendar year or was presented at a professional conference in the previous calendar year. The publication [...]

Announcing the Orlando L. Taylor Excellence in Scholarship Award – Nominations due November 152024-10-03T13:25:51-07:00

The National Diversity Collaborative Certificate Program at Fielding

2024-03-28T12:17:59-07:00

The National Diversity Collaborative, Inc., is partnering with Fielding's Institute for Social Innovation (ISI) to offer the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEI&A) Ambassador Certificate training. Dr. Bill White William White, EdD (2001), Fielding alum and CEO of the Collaborative shared: “Building on Fielding’s scholar-practitioner model, the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Certificate Program connects scholarly knowledge with practical application to support working professionals in the advancement of their DEI&A skills. Through our partnership with Fielding’s Institute for Social Innovation, we expect to produce 5,000 quality diversity professionals nationwide in five years.” The Collaborative serves organizations and leaders [...]

The National Diversity Collaborative Certificate Program at Fielding2024-03-28T12:17:59-07:00

CALL FOR PROPOSALS – International Leadership Association’s Women and Leadership

2023-04-26T11:05:13-07:00

CALL FOR PROPOSALS for an upcoming volume in the International Leadership Association’s Women and Leadership Transformative Women Leaders Book Series, Embodied Somatic Leadership for Peacebuilding and Protest: Women’s Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice. Edited by Randal Joy Thompson and Lazarina Topuzova “Just as women’s bodies are targeted as weapons of war and social repression, so women use their bodies for peacebuilding and protest.” Randal Joy Thompson and Lazarina Topuzova are soliciting proposals for their upcoming book Embodied Somatic Leadership for Peacebuilding and Protest: Women’s Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice. Please see below for a summary of the book and [...]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS – International Leadership Association’s Women and Leadership2023-04-26T11:05:13-07:00

Third 2022-23 CASL Fellows Residency Centers on Sustaining Leadership, Broadening STEM on HBCU Campuses

2023-04-19T08:30:01-07:00

Third 2022-23 CASL Fellows Residency Centers on Sustaining Leadership, Broadening STEM on HBCU Campuses  The Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL) is hosting its third residency for the 2022-23 cohort of its Leadership Fellows program on Thursday, April 20 to Sunday, April 23. This virtual residency’s theme centers on Sustaining Leadership that Advances Broadening Participation in STEM among Faculty and Students on the HBCU Campus. The program will focus on leadership and personal strategies that will facilitate CASL Fellows’ leadership journeys to broaden participation in STEM. Fellows will sharpen their Leadership Learning Projects (LLPs), work on Action Learning [...]

Third 2022-23 CASL Fellows Residency Centers on Sustaining Leadership, Broadening STEM on HBCU Campuses2023-04-19T08:30:01-07:00

Call for Applications: Dianne Kipnes Award, Institute for Innovation Fellows 2023-24

2023-03-27T10:41:27-07:00

Fielding’s Institute for Social Innovation has released its application for the Dianne Kipnes Award for Social Innovation. The Award Endowment will contribute up to a maximum of $10,000 to support one or more successful proposals. Awardees will present their work at a Fielding session with support from the University. A written annual progress report, final project report, and related publications or products are required. For full proposal guidelines, the supports projects from alums of Fielding’s School of Psychology and School of Leadership Studies that demonstrate innovation and collaboration for improving the lives of individuals, organizations, or communities. Projects can consist [...]

Call for Applications: Dianne Kipnes Award, Institute for Innovation Fellows 2023-242023-03-27T10:41:27-07:00

Celebrate Fielding’s 49th Anniversary and Join a Call Across the Globe on March 9th

2023-08-22T11:53:21-07:00

Sustainability: Acting for Social and Ecological Justice In March, Fielding celebrates its 49th Anniversary.    Keeping in mind the life-long learners that all Fielding community members are, we have designed a dynamic program for you this year. The theme for this year’s Call is Sustainability: Acting for Social and Ecological Justice. Join us on Thursday, Mar. 9 at 4 p.m. PST.   Our annual Call across the Globe has become a tradition since Fielding’s 45th Anniversary. It is an opportunity for the Fielding community, friends, and partners, to celebrate our university’s Anniversary and come together for a learning opportunity. To commemorate [...]

Celebrate Fielding’s 49th Anniversary and Join a Call Across the Globe on March 9th2023-08-22T11:53:21-07:00

Patagonia Founder and Recipient of Fielding Social and Ecological Justice Award Yvon Chouinard Takes Stand for Environment

2022-10-07T12:42:24-07:00

Yvon Chouinard Yvon Chouinard is taking another stand for the environment. Recently, he forfeited ownership of Patagonia, a company he founded nearly 50 years ago, in favor of social and ecological justice. In a letter he pinned for Patagonia’s website, Chouinard outlines the thought processes behind his decision, eventually landing on a 100 percent transfer of the company’s voting stock into the Patagonia Purpose Trust. Holdfast Collective, a nonprofit that fights the environmental crisis and defends nature, will have control of the entirety of the non-voting stock. “If we have any hope of a thriving planet – much [...]

Patagonia Founder and Recipient of Fielding Social and Ecological Justice Award Yvon Chouinard Takes Stand for Environment2022-10-07T12:42:24-07:00

Alum Aiden Hirshfield, Ph.D., Receives the Dianne Kipnes Social Innovation Award

2022-06-13T14:22:40-07:00

Aiden Hirshfield, PhD Media Psychology Program alum Aiden Hirshfield, Ph.D.’19, is the 2022 recipient of the Dianne Kipnes Social Innovation Award. The Award will partially fund his project, Providing Critical Support for ASL Interpreters in the Mental Health Setting. The project goals are to support and offer additional educational opportunities to American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters who face considerable occupational stress and financial challenges. The project’s mission is to improve the vocational skills of interpreters. As part of the project, Dr. Hirshfield anticipates assessing how this training could affect ASL interpreters’ mental health and job functioning. The Award [...]

Alum Aiden Hirshfield, Ph.D., Receives the Dianne Kipnes Social Innovation Award2022-06-13T14:22:40-07:00

Peter Whitehouse, MD, PhD, Receives Creative Longevity and Wisdom Award

2022-01-27T19:30:37-08:00

Contributions to visionary leadership in positive aging recognized The 2021 Fielding Creative Longevity and Wisdom Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award is presented to Peter Whitehouse, MD, Ph.D., for his contributions to visionary leadership in positive aging. Peter Whitehouse, MD, Ph.D. Dr. Whitehouse’s accomplishments include the establishment of The Intergenerational School, a unique public multi-age community school co-founded with his wife, Catherine. His fields of endeavor include cognitive/brain health, integrated health care, intergenerational learning, interprofessional practice, deep bioethics, organizational aesthetics, narrative epistemology, transmedia performance arts, civilization transformation, and play. He leads the InterHub in the Presencing Institute (MIT) and was [...]

Peter Whitehouse, MD, PhD, Receives Creative Longevity and Wisdom Award2022-01-27T19:30:37-08:00

Dolores Huerta Fires Up Crowd at Session

2021-08-29T22:43:56-07:00

Icon receives Medal for Social Transformation Legendary activist and civil rights icon Dolores Huerta drew hundreds of people from both the Fielding and Santa Barbara community on Jan. 10, when she came to Winter Session to accept the university's Medal for Social Transformation. "You can make a difference, but you have to speak up and you have to be ready to sacrifice," Huerta told the sold-out crowd during a Q&A panel that included (L-R below) Santa Maria teacher Eunice Gonzalez, the daughter of farmworkers and a recent MA graduate of Brown University; Marcos Vargas, executive director of The Fund for Santa [...]

Dolores Huerta Fires Up Crowd at Session2021-08-29T22:43:56-07:00

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