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(via Columbia University to Invest $100 Million in Faculty Diversity Programs)

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New Study: Faculty Diversity Gains in U.S. College and Universities Largely Minimal

New Study: Faculty Diversity Gains in U.S. College and Universities Largely Minimal

We are honored to announced a NEW article entitled Considering the Ethnoracial and Gender Diversity of Faculty in US College and University Intellectual Communities about faculty diversity in the The Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy (THJLP). THJLP is a law journal at South Texas College of Law Houston. Its purpose is to inform and significantly impact the Hispanic legal community in Texas and…

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Ethical and Inspiring Mentorship in STEM Conference - September 21, 2017 @ UMD

Ethical and Inspiring Mentorship in STEM Conference – September 21, 2017 @ UMD

Join us to discuss ethical, effective, and inspiring mentors Thursday, September 21, 2017 ,· 8 AM – 8 PM   The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and The Graduate School at University of Maryland College Park (UMD) extend an invitation to all Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates and Graduate Students of the USM System interested in pursuing an Academic Career to attend this event. All events, save for…

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Navigating Departmental Politics. A Play! Thurs. March 31, 2016

Navigating Departmental Politics. A Play! Thurs. March 31, 2016

Dr. Autumn Reed, Director of STRIDE and Coordinator of Faculty Diversity Initiatives at UMBC, invites PROMISE to a play on UMBC’s campus with the CRLT Players of the University of Michigan. Dr. Reed has served as a PROMISE Mentor-in-Residence, and facilitator for the 2016 PROMISE roundtable on faculty diversity that was part of the Research Symposium at College Park. She notes the following:  As…

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Where Are the Minority Professors?

Find the racial and ethnic breakdowns of all types of professors at more than 1,500 colleges.

"On average, 75 out of every 100 full-time faculty members at four-year colleges are white. Five are black, and even fewer are Hispanic. But that’s not the whole story. Among the higher ranks and at certain types of institutions — say, small, private master’s universities — the faculty is even less diverse."

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(via Yale University Earmarks $50 Million for Faculty Diversity Efforts)

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[C]ertain fields in the humanities (e.g., English and Philosophy) place increased value on single-authored scholarship versus collaborative work. This practice may seem at first glance to prioritize (in a nondiscriminatory manner) scholarship that makes it easier to evaluate individual merit. However, this 'pragmatic' valuing of single-authored scholarship risks distorting a central feature of the *politics* of producing new knowledge—that is, new forms of inquiry often require new institutions of validation (e.g., feminist presses, new journals) and new forms of collective research and action (e.g., interdisciplinarity and participatory action research). The value given to single-authored scholarship distorts the ways in which collective work is often the only route toward changing academic norms and dominant values, and better attending to the needs of underserved communities (e.g., low income and racial-ethnic minority communities). For instance, edited collections, such as anthologies in feminist and ethnic studies, are rarely valued as significant, promotion- or tenure-worthy contributions by research universities. Yet they constitute one of the most important methods minority intellectuals have pursued for establishing new fields of inquiry and for challenging the status quo. Valuing single-authored publications or peer-reviewed journal articles in high-ranking journals, in other words, is not an unbiased preference for 'high standards,' since it has historically marginalized new forms of knowledge production (Antonio, 2002).

Stephanie A. Fryberg and Ernesto Javier Martínez, “Constructed Strugglers: The Impact of Diversity Narratives on Junior Faculty of Color,” in The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education, eds. Fryberg and Martínez (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).