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Tag: Faculty Diversity
News Roundup
Weill Cornell Medicine to Launch Programs for Faculty Diversity Through $5 Million Mastercard Impact Fund Grant
Weill Cornell Medicine will launch several programs to create a more diverse faculty through a $5 million grant from the Mastercard Impact Fund. Programs will include a mentoring curriculum, a faculty diversity incentive program and competitive career development awards for junior faculty from underrepresented in medicine (URM) populations and those with childcare commitments, often female faculty. The [âŚ]
March 16, 2021
African-American
âMore Rivers to Crossâ for Penn State to Improve Status of Black Faculty
Penn State University still has âmore rivers to crossâ to improve the status of its Black faculty, according to a recent report by two of its professors who spent more than eight months researching the subject in an effort to highlight diversity issues at the institution.
April 30, 2020
COVID-19
How Universities Can Recruit and Retain Diverse Faculty During the Pandemic
As universities across the country consider hiring freezes, how can they continue to recruit and retain diverse faculty amid the coronavirus?
April 22, 2020
Home
A Latina Engineer Fights For A Review of Her Tenure Case
About 50 students and faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder protested last month in support of Dr. Lupita Montoya, a former assistant professor denied tenure in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Now a research associate at the university, Montoya has been fighting for a review of the decision on her tenure since her case first came up in fall 2016.
March 11, 2020
Campus Climate
Minority Professors Ask Themselves: To Protest or Not to Protest?
As students confront administrators about campus climate, it poses a dilemma to their professors, particularly faculty of color: to protest or not to protest? Can professors freely support studentsâ social justice causes, or are there professional risks involved? How do minority faculty decide when and how to show solidarity?
March 1, 2020
News Roundup
Stony Brook University Receives $957,000 to Support SUNYâs Diverse Faculty Initiative
Stony Brook University (SBU) will receive a $957,000 donation from the State University of New York (SUNY) to put toward increasing faculty diversity. Provided over a three-year period, the funding will support the salaries of six specific faculty members at the university. The donation is part of SUNYâs larger PRODIG (Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion [âŚ]
November 27, 2019
STEM
Three Houston Universities Receive Grant to Boost Minority STEM Faculty
For Dr. Yvette Pearson, an associate dean in Rice Universityâs Brown School of Engineering, the award of a $2.66-million National Science Foundation grant to Rice and two other Houston institutions means that other scholars may not have to experience some of the difficulties she faced early in her career.
August 15, 2019
Latinx
Pew Study: Faculty-Student Diversity Divide Persists
Faculty are slowly becoming more racially and ethnically diverse â but not nearly as diverse as their students, a Pew Research Center study found.
August 14, 2019
Opinion
The Impact of Whiteness on Higher Education Hiring
Many African-Americans grow up knowing that you must be âtwice as good to get half as far.â I think that this structure and forced frame of thought is embedded with racism. Why arenât there opportunities available for everyone based on your own merit and your qualifications for the role? The system of higher education is wired to promote those with a closer proximity to Whiteness while at the same time creating a barrier for men and women alike who look like me.
August 14, 2019
STEM
Endless Exodus: Faculty of Color Leave the Academy in Search of Fulfillment
Dr. Andre M. Perry is one of many academics of color who determined that the campus environment was no longer where they wanted to be. Although no agency appears to track the number of college faculty, particularly those of color, who exit the ivory tower, the transitions over time are significant because the disproportionately low numbers of faculty of color are stagnant or declining while students of color are increasing as a proportion of the nationâs colleges and universities.
July 25, 2019
Opinion
Four Hiring Strategies for Increasing Faculty Diversity
Diversifying the faculty remains one of the most central challenges facing American higher education today. This is not to say that White faculty cannot be successful with students of color. However, it is certainly important for students to see people who look like them at some point in their academic career
July 17, 2019
Latest News
Experts: More Strategy, Less Flailing Can Close Faculty Diversity Gaps
Cue the trombone for the âwomp, womp, woooompâ findings of another study that indicates continuing underrepresentation of women, Blacks and Hispanics on college and university faculties across the nation.
July 2, 2019
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