Mission, values, and meeting charter

Documents our co-created CYGNA mission and values and our meeting charter

Anne-Wil Harzing - Tue 21 Sep 2021 17:48 (updated Fri 18 Oct 2024 09:55)

By joining our mailing list you commit to supporting our CYGNA mission, values and meeting charter.

CYGNA mission

CYGNA's mission is to provide an inclusive space where members support one another, share knowledge and wisdom to encourage: empowerment and career development; inspiration and curiosity; the exchange of ideas and collaboration; and friendship.

CYGNA's eight core values

Community
Generosity
Kindness
Trust
Support
Respect
Safety
Contagious enthusiasm

CYGNA charter

To maintain our ethos, our members are expected to follow the following principles:

Respect and nurture CYGNA's ethos by modeling our values, both within and outside meetings.
Ensure meeting invites stay within the network only.
Keep discussions in CYGNA sessions and on the mailing list fully confidential.

Rules of engagement for online meetings

We want to ensure that our online meetings are a secure and safe place for everyone to share their views. Therefore, we would like to ask you to help us by adhering to the following additional principles:

Try your best to join the meeting on time. Our meetings are not run in a webinar setting and speakers see the audience. So it is a bit disruptive if many members drop in late.
Ensure your Zoom name includes your first and last name, that your Zoom profile includes a photo, and that you are muted when you are not speaking.
Switch on your camera when joining a CYGNA meeting so we know who is joining us. We prefer you to keep your camera on during the entire meeting; it contributes to CYGNA being a "safe space". However, we understand that some of you have good reasons for switching if off.
The content of our meetings is confidential. As such, we do not allow AI assisted note-taking or recording of any part of the session, unless all attendees have explicitly agreed to this.

What if I can't attend a meeting after all?

We are aware of and sensitive to the multiple demands on your time, and so we of course understand if you register but then cannot attend.

But please remember that event organisers are volunteers who put considerable time and commitment into preparing an engaging CYGNA event for participants and they often need to estimate attendance to plan activities.

So if you know it is unlikely you will attend, please register when you are more likely to attend than not; and if you are registered but cannot attend, please let organisers know in advance.

What does CYGNA mean to its members?

At our 50th meeting we also asked members to share a few words about what CYGNA meant to them on a Padlet. We think the result is pretty amazing :-).

About Cygna - Background on the CYGNA network
Quick overview - Overview of presentations in our meetings with linked slidedecks
Meetings - Information about forthcoming CYGNA meetings, and links to prior years
Membership - Information for and about the Cygna network membership
Readings and inspirations - Inspirational readings and resources for female academics
The Cygna charter - Documents our CYGNA charter
Cygna videos - Repository of introduction videos of our new CYGNA coordination team
Cygna history - Tracing the history of our network since 2014, includes links to all of our meetings
Frequently asked questions - Everything you may want to know about the CYGNA network and more
The SWAN project - Initiated by Christa Sathish and Clarice Santos and implemented by Jacqueline Leon Ribas, this project created two swans reflecting CYGNA’s equal, inclusive, collective identity and the diversity of the network and its members
Conference meet-ups - Provides brief write-ups of CYGNA conference meet-ups
10-year Anniversary event - Programme page for our 10-year anniversary event
International Women's Day - Our collection of posts for international women's day
CYG: Teaching & Scholarship Research - Our first CYG = SIG = Special Interest Group