Workshops

Dr. Foreman, award-winning educator and MacArthur Fellow, facilitates a variety of interactive workshops for universities and programs.

Gabrielle Foreman Workshop at Delaware Hist. Society

Dr. Foreman’s values-based workshops support and empower faculty, administrators, and students in defining and enacting their mission-driven work. In addition, she offers programming designed to help institutions enact their commitments to recruiting and retaining students and scholars of color in a challenging era for higher education.

Built on decades of providing graduate student support and professional development, as well connections between institutions of higher learning, cultural institutions, and community organizations, Dr. Foreman’s workshops are a necessary and timely addition to equity and pipeline-building initiatives.

Each workshop is crafted to be responsive to the contexts and needs of participants, with a special focus on those from historically under-represented groups. Participants report that they leave these sessions energized, with renewed professional clarity, and concrete strategies to deepen and amplify their scholarly and institution-building work.

Explore Dr. Foreman’s 5 Signature Workshops below, and connect to discuss the best options for your institutional needs.

Gabrielle Foreman speaking on how to apply and excel in graduate school

How to Hack Graduate School

The Academic and Financial Secrets You Need to Apply, Excel, and Thrive

In this “Strive and Thrive” workshop, students interested in PhDs and other graduate programs leave with hidden secrets that lead to successful applications. It highlights economic data as well as the nuts and bolts of graduate applications, negotiations, and first-year advice often overlooked in honors and prep programs. In addition, this workshop focuses on funding strategies that can save tens of thousands of dollars over decades.
Participants rave about this session. From Mellon-Mays, McNair, and other Honors and prep programs to groups of 100+ underrepresented students, this workshop is designed to excite and ignite.
Who it’s for: Underrepresented students across all disciplines.
Duration: 2.5 hours.

Recruiting and Retaining Scholars of Color

A Workshop for Deans, Chairs and DGSs

This workshop provides financial contexts, testimonies, and strategies to help institutional leaders recruit and retain scholars of color across the pipeline from graduate students through senior faculty.
It identifies surprisingly common pitfalls that can not only encourage students and faculty to accept other offers, but also cause costly and long-term reputational damage to departments and institutions.
Who it’s for: Academic Deans, Department Chairs, and Directors of Graduate Students
Duration: 2.5 hours.

“Dr. Foreman articulated many of the thoughts, feelings, and questions we have, but we haven’t had the tools to bring them forth into conversations, actions, and strategies.”

— Workshop participant

Gabrielle Foreman Delivering workshop on Meeting Your Goals

Getting to Your Goals

Much More than Mentorship

Participants in this workshop compose a professional “board of advisors” that can help advance their career goals in more specific, less stressful, and more successful ways than the conventional singular mentor model ever could.
Attendees identify the specific elements of support and input they need at this juncture of their careers and identify people who can fill those roles. They reflect on how to create reciprocal relationships, identify what their potential board members can do most easily, and discuss how to identify and approach those on their list. This workshop is particularly fruitful when paired with the session on mission statements.
Who it’s for: While the workshop is composed with early and mid-career faculty in mind, senior scholars and administrative leaders often find it incredibly helpful.
Duration: 2.5 hours.

Values-Based Negotiations

Collaborative Models to Fuel Your Career

This stand-alone values-based negotiation workshop leaves attendees empowered to craft packages that support their scholarly and community-driving or institution-building contributions and leadership. It asks participants to look beyond salary and to reflect on what they want to build as they also advance their scholarship.
By reorienting negotiation away from money and instead toward the resources needed to make scholarly, institutional, and community-engaged contributions that are often deeply important to scholars of color and many others, participants identify what resources will amplify their academic success while creating satisfying—rather than burdened—professional lives. By aligning their asks with the expressed values of their institutions, departments, and larger fields, attendees learn concrete negotiation strategies that empower them to present their visions/asks as valued collaborators.
Particularly good for post-doc programs and professional associations, this workshop also addresses how to think expansively and garner resources that allow disaffected faculty to stay at their institutions
Who it’s for: Early to mid-career faculty and administrators. This workshop is a great fit for post-doc programs and professional associations.
Duration: 2.5 hours.

“This workshop is long overdue. I really needed this as a new faculty member.”