Diversity and Innovation: President’s Innovation Forum

Dr. Pollard and Montgomery College Innovation Works (MCIW) will host a forum on the link between diversity and innovation on February 16, 2016.  The forum will be an engaging discussion of how diversity makes us smarter, more capable, and more cognitively complex.  Dr. Pollard will welcome

Unlocking the Potential of Diversity” –  Dr. Oscar Holmes, IV, Assistant Professor of Management, Rutgers University

Easy Peazy, Lemon Squeezy: Yielding  Innovation from Cognitive Complexity” – Dr. Marcus Stewart, Associate Professor of Management, Bentley University

The MCTV studio has limited seating, and we have reached our capacity, but you can still join us from 2-3:30 pm on Tuesday, February 16, 2016:

Live Stream the program:  http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/InnovationWorks/Watch/

Join a Viewing Party: Germantown, PK 108 or Rockville, SC 151

Join us on twitter @mcinnovates, #PIFMC

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Videos to Consider

  1. “Why Diversity is Matters”- Dr. Katherine W. Phillips https://youtu.be/lHStHPQUzkE
  2.  “The Science of Inclusion”- Dr. Quinetta Roberson https://youtu.be/SS7ID8VClko
  3.  “Perceiving Social Inequity”Dr. Ashleigh Shelby Rosette- https://events.fuqua.duke.edu/facultyconversations/2014/11/17/ashleigh-shelby-rosette/

Readings to Consider

“How Diversity Makes Us Smarter”  from Scientific America, by Dr. Katherine W. Phillips http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/

 

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