Purpose 

The AREA is an inquiry experience that helps the respondent envision and identify institutional behaviors that help or hinder transformative and inclusive progress. It targets essential components of infrastructure that propel or paralyze mission-specific productivity, instruction, navigation, and retention benchmarks. A battery of questions helps institutions conceptualize pathways to conversion by identifying causes and assessing the resources available for change. The answers to these questions are revealed in digestible frames and in real time.

 

Rationale

Many factors influence progress and paralysis. The discovery process rarely yields findings in a linear form or a prioritized display. The discovery effort offers a profound ROI potential when factors relative to infrastructural transformation are found and afforded direct and focused attention. Factors such as human nature, overt and implicit biases, traditions, and community have invisible but tangible impacts on the speed of transformation. These and other aspects affect infrastructure alignments, ultimately dictating who gets recruited, hired, promoted, retained, and dismissed.

 

The impetus behind the development of the AREA instrument is not based on adverse experiences caused by the historical lack of access experienced by underrepresented groups. Instead, relevant auditing is essential for leadership awareness and empowered decision-making against traditional and well-ingrained processes and procedures that adversely operate against expansion with new talent, technology, and demographics.

 

Coop Di Leu endeavors to catalyze higher education about the cause and effect of climatic and infrastructural circumstances. We strive to focus on specific components of infrastructural assessment that impact efforts to transform traditional and well-ingrained patterns of thought and the resulting functionality. The AREA represents a truth-seeking method of inquiry in the same way truth was discovered after the windspeed over airplane wings was adequate to produce flight. The technique helps us rethink why organizations behave the way they do, where staple behaviors exist, and how to transform them into futuristic paradigms.

 

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