ECAR Report: Exploring Diversity and Creating IT Community through Storytelling

New Educause Report entitled "Exploring Diversity and Creating IT Community through Storytelling" by Hetty Baiz and Susan Danoff is avilable.

Abstract: This ECAR research bulletin focuses on a methodology for exploring diversity and building community among information technology and other university employees. It is based on the program developed for Princeton University's OIT staff. The methodology, which can be adapted for many uses throughout higher education, uses storytelling and other creative approaches to engage co-workers in dialogue about diversity in order to promote community, colleagueship, and understanding in the workplace.

Audience: The content contained in this research bulletin may prove particularly useful to CIOs, human resources directors, project managers, and university staff members.