- Research agenda
- Grant strategy
- Funding pipelines
- Publication planning
- Research partnerships
- Labs and research groups
- Research enterprise development
Signature deliverableResearch Enterprise Blueprint
For Scholars
Scholar → Research → Leadership → System
Institute Fellows move through a developmental progression — from the empowered scholar, to advancing research, to cultivating leadership, to contributing to systems change across Canadian higher education.
The Progression
From empowered scholar to systems change
Five developmental areas carry the Fellow through the full progression — scholar, research, leadership, and system.
- Supervision
- Mentoring
- Delegation
- Communication
- Feedback
- Conflict navigation
- Accountability
- Research-team culture
- Emotional intelligence
- Cultural intelligence
- Annual reviews
- Mid-term reviews
- Tenure expectations
- Teaching
- Research
- Service
- Scholarly visibility
- Sponsorship
- External referees
- Dossier development
- Associate Professor
- Full Professor
Signature deliverableTenure & Promotion Map
- Institutional discernment
- Power
- Influence
- Campus culture
- Race and organizational dynamics
- Protecting research time
- Managing service expectations
- Negotiating resources
- Building allies
- Building sponsors
- Responding to difficult institutional encounters
Read the institution.
Exercise agency.
Build influence.
Protect the scholar.
- Leadership identity
- Purpose
- Boundaries
- Belonging
- Relationships
- Emotional well-being
- Career sustainability
- Coaching
- Emotional intelligence
- Cultural intelligence
- BLKEQ®
From Scholar to System
Development that follows your trajectory
The Fellow experience extends from the empowered scholar through establishment, tenure, promotion, and leadership — toward stewardship of the system itself.
- Recruit
- Establish
- Build
- Advance
- Promote
- Lead
- Steward
The Institute supports the whole scholar through the whole academic journey.
Begin the Partnership
Recruiting Black scholars is the beginning.
Let's build the conditions for them to remain, advance, lead, and flourish.