Connection and Collaboration Dinners

The Connection and Collaboration Dinners program is intended to foster faculty collaboration across departments and divisions, and to rebuild community in the FAS and SEAS in the wake of the period of remote operations necessitated by the pandemic.

The program aims to encourage faculty to reconnect with colleagues, meet new ones, and develop networks that might lead to new avenues in teaching and research. To facilitate this, the FAS and SEAS Dean’s Offices will provide funds to support dinners or lunches for small groups of faculty, representing two or more FAS and SEAS departments.  

Discussion at these gatherings may be formal or informal: gatherings might take the form of a salon or focused discussions of ideas and projects; or they may simply be informal gatherings to have conversations about an area of shared interest. Faculty are encouraged to reach out to colleagues from across the FAS and SEAS in formulating proposals.

There are three ways to participate:

1. Propose a themed dinner for a faculty group that you assemble
2. Sign up to attend a themed dinner with a group that we will assemble
3. Sign up to attend an unthemed dinner with a group that we will assemble