Events

December
01

December 1, 2023 12:00 – 1:30 pm, Zoom
With Janie Victoria Ward, PhD and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood, PhD

Zoom Meeting ID: 378 796 2307 https://umass-amherst.zoom.us./i/3787962307

Sister:Resisters - Mentoring Black College Women

Building upon the initiative to support a peer network and increase advancement of Black women faculty members on the UMass Amherst campus, the UMass ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Group Black Women United will host three online sessions this fall and early spring titled Sister:Resisters that focus on mentoring Black women.


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February
09

February 9, 2024, from 10:00-12:00pm, Zoom
With Joya Misra, Provost Professor and Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair, Department of Sociology & School of Public Policy, Co-PI UMass ADVANCE, President, American Sociological Association

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Equity Minded Workload Reform, Part 2 - Policies

Many faculty members report feeling that workload in their department is unfairly distributed; women and faculty of color may be asked to carry out more than their share of work. This session provides clear, evidence-based practices to create better, fairer workloads for faculty through changing the “choice architecture” for the division of labor in departments. We discuss a variety of approaches to workload equity such as rotating time-intensive roles, reducing and restructuring committees, creating policies for service and teaching assignments, using benchmarks by rank, or developing crediting systems that can help departments create fairer workload for all faculty. This session follows a session in September (Part 1) and focuses on organizational policies and practices that can be adopted to proactively design more equitable workloads and reward systems.


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February
16

February 16, 2024 12:00 – 1:30 pm, Zoom
With Janie Victoria Ward, PhD and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood, PhD

Zoom Meeting ID: 378 796 2307 https://umass-amherst.zoom.us./i/3787962307

Sister:Resisters - Black Women's Mentoring Toolkit

Building upon the initiative to support a peer network and increase advancement of Black women faculty members on the UMass Amherst campus, the UMass ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Group Black Women United will host three online sessions this fall and early spring titled Sister:Resisters that focus on mentoring Black women. This third session is on Black Women's Mentoring Toolkit.


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