Reaction from job-market candidates, assistant professors and senior scholars:

"This was by far the best session I have ever attended."

"I have not taken this many notes since I was a first-year graduate student” 

"Foreman does not teach you how to say: 'Show me the money!' She shows idealistic young scholars how to align their lifelong dreams of achieving lasting impact on scholarship, teaching, and community to the institution's goals."

"Deans should insist that job-market candidates attend her workshops"  
    

Negotiating for Success: A workshop for underrepresented doctoral candidates and those on the move. There is little debate that scholars of color often are committed—and are asked—to take on additional responsibilities in committee work and mentoring. Balancing our dedication to our scholarship with extra service expectations is no easy task. This half-day workshop offers concrete and often overlooked negotiation strategies sure to help each participant create the time, space, research and monetary support that allows overextended faculty to excel. After going over key negotiation principals, participants spend time assessing what they need to succeed (both academically and personally). We then strategize about negotiation exchanges with Chairs and Deans so that participant requests are aligned with university objectives and campus culture. Although successful negotiations can lead to tens of thousands of dollars saved and earned, the goal of this workshop is to help faculty of color achieve their scholarly, personal and community-centered goals.

Gabrielle Foreman facilitates the annual negotiation session at the Ford Foundation Fellows conference and has also offered workshops at such places as USC and Penn State. She has personally coached junior and senior scholars in the social sciences, arts and humanities and STEM fields. Those she has worked with are now professors (with rich resources) at Ivy League and State Universities as well as liberal arts colleges all over the country. She believes that negotiations have provided critical support for her scholarship, teaching and campus, community and national service. Her home campus recently recognized her with the Sterling Award, the college's most prestigious faculty honor.
 
Promise and Pitfalls: Faculty Workshop on Community Collaborations.
Co-Facilitated with the director of a Los Angeles archive and library that houses a rich trove of papers on the state’s progressive history, this team works with centers of community engagement so faculty can better plan and execute long-term, sustainable projects with partners. By rethinking academic assumptions about resources, our academic calendar and the role of community organizations that train student interns, in this half-day workshop, teachers and partners are encouraged to break new ground and create richer relationships that empower organizations, students and the faculty who work with them.
 

"Foreman's advice is extraordinary and her example is inspiring. She offers sample wording for how to present requests.  It empowers you to be creative--not only about how to discuss what you need but also about how to think about it. The workshop is priceless. It changed how I perceive myself and the institutions that are important to my work." 

"The techniques I learned have helped me negotiate positions so that I can focus on and produce sound scholarship and fulfill my commitment to mentoring students and bridging gaps between the university and wider communities"