Professor Dame Madeleine Atkins became the ninth President of Lucy Cavendish College, the fastest-growing constituent college at the University of Cambridge, in October 2018. Her background includes reading Law and History as an undergraduate at Cambridge University, teaching history in a large high school in Huntingdon, UK, and completing a Ph.D. and post-doctoral research contracts at the University of Nottingham.
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- Adopt these new tools to avoid complacency, alleviate stress, and find new ways of reaching young people in the classroom.
- Rip up the rule book of how you do outreach and adopt three things essential to flushing out outstanding potential.
- Produce active research programs where students are co-researchers.
- Tackle upstream the lifestyle and life skills that mean our students are both physically and mentally healthy with differentiation tips.
- Amplify an enterprising mindset for students to push their envelope, that pushes their safe space.
- Create the kitchen challenge feedback loops hidden in curriculum and assumptions.
- Discover a radical change to create a whole team effort between the promise of a vision and actually implementing it so that the students are genuinely benefiting.
- Remember data is evolving and has to reflect what’s in your DNA to reflect what you count as success.
“...diversity means you have a seat at the table. Inclusion means you have a legitimate voice. Your background is not a ‘bar’ to having a legitimate voice. Quite the reverse, but neither of those works without belonging. Without belonging, it doesn't work. Belonging means I am not afraid as a student for my voice to be heard. You need all three together in the culture to enable students from these diverse backgrounds to actually thrive.”
-Madeleine Atkins
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