Tag: Faculty of Color

African-American

Why I Came Back: An Alumni Perspective

I never intended to stay this long. But I found myself enjoying working as an administrator at the college I graduated from almost a decade earlier.

June 8, 2021

STEM

University of Maryland, College Park to Hire More Faculty of Color, Cut Carbon Footprint and Invest More in Research

The University of Maryland in College Park will hire more faculty of color, cut carbon emissions and increase investments in research, Dr. Darryll J. Pines, the school’s president announced Thursday, The Washington Post reported. The school will be using $40 million over five years to support more than 100 new faculty from underrepresented groups, the […]

April 23, 2021

Recruitment & Retention

University of Oregon Leads Retention Initiative for Faculty of Color

University of Oregon’s Center on Diversity and Community (CoDac) is leading a retention initiative for faculty of color, the Daily Emerald reported. The initiative will conduct exit interviews with faculty of color who have left in the past five years to learn how the institution might improve in terms of inclusion. The project is about […]

February 4, 2021

Social Justice

Pitt Diversity Forum Brings Together Higher Ed Stakeholders to Confront Systemic Racism

Over 12,000 educators and students around the world convened virtually this week to participate in the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion forum titled, “Advancing Social Justice: A Call to Action.”

July 30, 2020

Opinion

A Room of One’s Own White Colleagues

Every spring, I dread putting together my annual review materials. In March, a predominantly-White room full of senior colleagues will discuss whether I meet their standard of what a good scholar, teacher and university citizen should be. I have nothing to worry about, right?

March 14, 2019

Opinion

Open Letter to Faculty of Color Parenting While On The Tenure-Track

We are compelled to write this open letter to our fellow faculty of color colleagues who are navigating tenure-track while raising little humans. As graduate students, we were warned that pursuing a tenure-track position would be both challenging and draining. The mental exhaustion and physiological impact of being on the tenure-track for people of color has been largely researched; much of it centers around social identities and how we navigate systems of privilege and oppression as minoritized individuals.

February 15, 2019