Prep. for Thursday, April 11th

  1. Submit a blog entry about the Evaluation mode
  2. Watch this Ted Talk:  Three Myths of Behavior Change
  3. Read p. 44-45 of “Advancing Sustainable Lifestyles” (a pdf in the folder “Sustainability, Brands and Promotion/Good Reads”)
    • What single “marketing” barrier is most likely to thwart success of your group’s product/service (Figure 46)?

Optional:  if you are interested in participating in the Diversity and Inclusion workshop this Friday (10 am – 1 pm with free lunch), email Tatia.Granger@mason.wm.edu with a copy to Rex.Holmlin@mason.wm.edu.  More details follow:

This Friday, April 12 from 10AM to 1PM, we will be holding our D&I Workshop. The key objective of the Workshop is to take all of the data we have developed over this semester and develop concrete recommendations to improve Diversity & Inclusion here at the Mason School.

Over the course of this semester we have conducted a survey and a series of focus groups concerning Diversity & Inclusion. Many of you have participated in these activities. In fact, 685 members of the Mason community completed the survey and   another 98 Mason Community members participated in one of the D&I focus groups with our consultant Rhonda Bolton.

As of today, we have forty-three signed up for the Workshop on Friday.  This includes:

Three (3) undergraduates

Fourteen (14) graduate students

Fifteen (15) staff

Five (5) faculty

Six (6) executive Partners

Here is the help I need: our undergraduate participation is, politely, a little low. For those of you teaching undergraduate students this semester, please take a minute in class this week and let them know about the Workshop on the 12th. If they are interested in participating, please have them contact Professor Granger (Tatia.Granger@mason.wm.edu) with a copy to me (Rex.Holmlin@mason.wm.edu).  Did I mention we will provide lunch?