To gather chairs of dance departments together in community for discussion, solidarity, and resourcing.  In alignment with DSA organizational values, DSA’s Department Chair Network is committed to making dance departments places of inclusion, care, and possibility through equitable employment practices, critical curriculum building, faculty and student support, a commitment to wellness through and beyond the body, navigating and/or initiating institutional change, and securing dance’s longevity within higher education.

The DSA Department Chair Network is open to Institutional Members first, as a benefit of Institutional Membership (a membership level that explicitly holds up contingent workers and graduate students through institutional funds).  Once Institutional Members have the chance to register, registration is opened more broadly to individual DSA members.  This is a member benefit, and thus is not open to non-members. 

2024 Registered Participants (so far!): Northwestern University, Connecticut College, Duke University, Loyola Marymount University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Princeton University, University of California Riverside, California State University Channel Islands, Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, University of the Philippines, UNC Charlotte, George Washington University