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Item Asking big: Creating a culture of support for academic mothers’ advocating in times of crisis(The National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Program, 2021) Bender, Ashley; Hoermann-ElliottThis essay brings into focus institutional inequities faced by academic parents that stem from the systematic socialization of women to remain silent about their professional and personal needs under ideal circumstances and even more so in times of crisis. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic’s changing higher education policies daily, we argue there has never been a better time for us to ask for more when academic women, especially those identifying as mothers, are suffering professionally and personally. We trace key cultural insights and recent research regarding how the global pandemic has increased the strain that academic mothers feel, particularly BIPOC mothers, before calling on readers to reclaim their right to advocate on behalf of their and their families’ needs. We conclude by defining the culture of asking we seek to foster at our own institution and make recommendations for how readers might “ask big” at their home institutions.Item Going global without going abroad(Diversity Abroad, 2021) Bender, Ashley; Busl, GretchenThis essay is rooted in the belief that thinking “globally” does not always mean “internationally” and that global awareness begins with self-awareness. Often the idea of “global citizenship” remains abstract to students, and previous efforts to create global curricula suggest that students need more than theoretical knowledge to “develop their own agency as responsible actors in the world” (Sperandio, Grudzinski-Hall, & Stewart-Gambino 2010). Our National Endowment for the Humanities funded project, “Building Global Perspectives in the Humanities’’ (2018-2020), intentionally brought these ideas together to expand the quantity and quality of our institution’s global learning opportunities. **For more information, please visit Diversity Abroad and The Global Impact Exchange at https://www.diversitynetwork.org/GlobalImpactExchangeItem XI The Eighteenth Century(Oxford University Press, 2023-06) Turner, Joseph; Milne, Fiona; Carver, Dylan; Bender, AshleyThis chapter has four sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Joseph Turner; section 2 is by Fiona Milne; section 3 is by Dylan Carver; section 4 is by Ashley Bender.