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Monday, Sept. 11 - Wednesday, Sept. 13, 9 AM – 4 PM; Thursday, Sept. 14, 9 AM - 6 PM; Friday, Sept. 15, 9 AM – 12:30 PM

As a professional, you may negotiate more than you do anything else. You will negotiate with your boss, your colleagues, funders and investors, other firms, government agencies, legislative and scientific bodies, the courts, the public and the media. You will negotiate on your own behalf, but also to influence and shape policy outcomes that have an impact on larger communities and even the public as a whole. This course is designed to help you develop your understanding of negotiation and your awareness of yourself as a negotiator. Provide tools and concepts to analyze and prepare for negotiations. Enhance your negotiation skills through simulations, cases, reflection and feedback. Lastly, it will extend those skills into collaborative problem-solving and conflict resolution in public policy contexts you may encounter in your professional life.

This is a highly interactive course organized around simulations, small group and plenary group activities, guest speakers and discussions.  We place a strong emphasis on peer-to-peer as well as instructor feedback.

Instructors

  • Jan Martinez, PhD, senior lecturer in Law
  • Brenna Powell, PhD, lecturer in Law

Audience & Capacity

Open to all graduate students in any discipline (particularly those who have not had a chance to explore these issues extensively through their coursework), as well as postdoctoral scholars, if space allows.

Participants will be selected to assure a good balance of skills, background, and areas of policy interest, with priority to those applying first. Space is limited to 24.

Objectives

By participating fully in this course, you will:

  • Provide overview and experiential learning on fundamentals of negotiation (2-party, multiparty, facilitated multiparty)

  • Practice collaborative problem-solving skills with series of negotiation exercises, drawn from both private and public context, in domestic and international settings

  • Participate effectively as part of a team

  • Reflect on personal experiences, give and receive feedback

  • Explore the contexts in which students and members of the Stanford community engage in public policy negotiation in their professional lives

  • Explore interplay between science, policy and technology in public policy decision making

  • Consider role of media to influence public processes

  • Examine role of civic engagement and roles that public citizens play in public policy decisions

Summary

This course is intensive and highly interactive. We will begin with exploring and understanding your own negotiation style, move on to two-party negotiations, and advance to multi-party and team negotiations. More advanced simulations will emphasize complex problem-solving and conflict resolution among multiple parties (government, corporate, civil society). Negotiation topics include the tension between cooperative and competitive strategies, building trust, exchanging information and managing coalitions. We will then explore the use of third party facilitators in collaborative problem-solving, examine options for civic engagement, and the influence of the media. We will use case simulations drawn from environment and natural resource policymaking, intergroup conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and other policy areas of interest to the class. Guest speakers from the Stanford community will share insights into their own professional negotiation experience and engagement in public policymaking.

Past participants who took this course said the following about their experience:

"It's a practical learning opportunity, and I immediately deployed the skills I practice several times during the week outside of class. It's a time commitment with prep and reading, but it is fun and once you get into it, the time flies.” -SGSI 2022 Participant

“The course puts a structure to something we all do so many times but do not know how to go about it. It is worthwhile to take the course, especially with the instructors who taught it.” -SGSI 2022 Participant

“I gained confidence in my skills as a negotiator and felt that I left with a toolkit of tactics to use in all kinds of situations, from one-on-one negotiations, to complex negotiations without a clear outcome." -SGSI 2021 Participant

Additional Course Expectations

  • Participants will complete roughly 2 hours of reading and preparation for negotiation simulations each evening.
  • Full attendance is expected.

SUNet ID required to log in; all SGSI correspondence sent to your Stanford email account.

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Monday, Sept. 11 – Friday, Sept. 15, 9 AM – 3 PM

As many universities promote diversity and equity and foster the study of race and racial inequality, various political actors today seek determinedly to undermine these efforts. At some institutions, faculty who teach courses on race and ethnic studies, or who advocate for diversity and inclusion, are confronting the effects of this reaction: many are cancelling or modifying their courses, finding their research prohibited or suppressed, and facing profound uncertainty. Public universities, in particular, find their budgets newly scrutinized for diversity initiatives, even as such expenditures constitute a small fraction of their spending.

Instructors

  • Professor Vaughn Rasberry, Department of English, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education

Audience & Capacity

Early-stage graduate students. Space is limited to 15.

Objectives

By participating fully in this course, you will:

  • Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of race and radicalization
  • Directions in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education
  • Practical tips for publishing academic research
  • Research opportunities in the fields of race and ethnic

Summary

How do we make sense of this landscape, and what can be done to navigate and to counteract these pressures? In this course, we will wrestle with this question by surveying the ideological and political landscape in higher education; reading and discussing new work by scholars with expertise in these areas; and sharing our own knowledge and experience, both in seminar discussion and in small group activities. In addition, we will consider practical, professional issues such as routes to publication, fellowships and research opportunities, academic and non-academic careers in DEI, and more. Readings will includes works by Sarah Ahmed, Roderick Ferguson, Lorgia García Peña, and Maboula Soumaharo.

Additional Course Expectations

  • No work is required outside of class.
  • Full attendance is expected.

SUNet ID required to log in; all SGSI correspondence sent to your Stanford email account.

The SHARE Education Team (which includes staff of the office formerly known as the Office of Sexual Assault & Relationship Abuse Education & Response [SARA]) is always looking to expand their volunteer network of members of various Stanford communities who are passionate about promoting healthy sexuality and relationships on campus. If you are passionate about changing campus culture around sexuality and relationship and creating a more caring and empathetic community, check out their available education and outreach programs and resources.

Looking for equipment or a facility for your research project? Whether it's mass spectrometry, gene sequencing, or parallel computing, this list of shared campus resources from DoResearch might have what you need. 

Are you an employee? Manager? Musician? Athlete? Meeting goals, finding growth, and learning your craft requires feedback! In this article by Kamakshi Ayyar for the Stanford Magazine, David Dodson outlines a six-step framework focusing on how to give constructive feedback. Using this constructive feedback method, learn how to give feedback that is clear, free of miscommunication, and minimizes the risk of hurt feelings. 

Offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning, a small group feedback session (SGFS) is an excellent way to gather specific, useful mid-quarter feedback on your course. In the last twenty or so minutes of class, trained evaluator will visit your class and divide your students into groups that must each reach consensus about which aspects of the course are contributing to their learning and which need to be improved. The evaluator will then synthesize the results and share them with you in a private consultation. SGFS is available to all TAs and instructors and can take place between weeks four and six; schedule online at least a week in advance.

Situated within Stanford University Libraries, Software and Services for Data Science (SSDS) provides services to Stanford faculty, staff, and students with the acquisition, curation, and preservation of social science data. Additionally, the group provides support in selecting and using both quantitative and qualitative analysis software. Part of the Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC), located in the Green Library Bing Wing, SSDS will help you with all of your social science data needs. 

Looking for a specific type of software? Stanford has hundreds of products available for your use. Visit this website to search for specific software or to browse all that Stanford has to offer.

Teaching a class this year and looking for ways to enhance your students' speaking skills? This resource from the Hume Center provides ideas and support for integrating speaking components into your class. If your students will be giving oral presentations, prepare them ahead of time with a workshop from Hume. Or, arrange to have your students meet with Oral Communications Tutors to hone their skills. Being an effective teacher means getting your students the right tools; visit this website today!

Giving presentations and engaging in public speaking can be intimidating, but it is a necessary part of graduate school, as well as many careers. Learn to control your speech anxiety and develop effective speaking habits with these resources from the Hume Center.  

Stanford's Alya Raphael offers straightforward, actionable tips to present your research effectively–to any audience, in any setting–in this Fellows Forum. Follow the video with the session's slides and explore more resources below. (recorded October 2015)

VPGE's John Boothroyd shares practical and effective presentation strategies for conferences, jobs, and seminars in this information-packed Quick BytesFollow the video with the session's slides and find more resources below. (recorded June 2015)

Watch this video playlist of highlights from Stacey Sargent's 2014 visit to Stanford, which challenged a group of graduate students to take a deep dive into their ideas about success, meaning, and satisfaction. Clips curated by VPGE cover important points from her talk, including identifying types of inner critics, building success, and understanding your "divine flaw." 

The Stanford Alumni website hosts interactive resources that guides you through the many complex steps of securing the career that you want. Whatever phase of a career search or exploration you're in, you will find valuable videos and self-guided exercises to help you navigate your career path. 

The Stanford Alumni job board is the only job board that's exclusively for Stanford: it's free, and all listings are posted by alumni. Includes jobs and internships; open to students and alumni only. 

The Stanford Alumni Mentoring (SAM) program connects current students with alumni who are willing to share their workplace and educational experience in long-term mentoring relationships. Students at all levels are welcome to participate, and graduate students exploring careers outside of academia may find this resource especially valuable. Sign up at any time, search for mentors who interest you, and get started!

The Office for Religious Life oversees and provides support for Stanford Associated Religions (SAR), some 40 religious organizations invited to offer their spiritual services to the campus. Check out their list of organizations here to see if any interest you. 

Stanford Career Connections is the Stanford Alumni Association's portal for all its online career resources. Career services are available to all undergraduate, graduate and professional school alumni. The portal features an online directory of more than 200,000 alumni and an alumni-only jobs and internships board. It has tools for different career stages, including discounts on professional development conferences and expos, alumni clubs, and coaching. The Stanford Alumni Linkedin group (open to alumni and students) is also a way to discover opportunities. A great resource to build and expand your professional network, before and after you graduate.

 

The Stanford Digital Repository supports management of scholarly information resources of enduring value to Stanford University. Faculty, students, and researchers are all eligible to use SDR services, provided through Stanford Libraries, to promote and protect the products of their work. If you are currently exploring data storage and preservation options for your research, check out the capabilities of the SDR!

Stanford Domains offers faculty and students their own web space and set of open source tools to develop course hubs and create digital identities. Whether it's for a course you are teaching or to showcase other aspects of your work at Stanford, Stanford Domains can provide you with web space with a customized domain name and the tools necessary to build an outstanding website. Visit their website today to fill out an interest form and launch your own Stanford domain. 

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