Morolake
Laosebikan-Buggs,
PhD
Director of Inclusive Excellence for Graduate and Professional Programs
Elon University
Dr. Buggs is a college administrator with an accomplished record of championing graduate student success currently serving as the inaugural director of inclusive excellence for graduate and professional education for Elon University. She provides critical leadership in the University’s and graduate schools’ strategic commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism; coordinating institutional support of Elon’s growing population of graduate and professional students.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Uncovered: A Co-curricular Strategy Establishing Foundational Values for Interprofessional Education
We will discuss an interprofessional orientation week activity to break down biases and introduce interprofessional practice and education called “Professional Identity and Me”. This co-curricular activity was created to forge connections between professional identity and the values and ethics of others, as these are competencies1 for interprofessional practice and education that intersect with JEDI. The scaffolding approach chosen to organize this activity was selected after a scoping review of literature of best practices for establishing foundational understanding of diversity, equity,…