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Workshop: Inclusive Departmental Practices
Inclusive and equitable departments don't just happen automatically but are the result of practices by the faculty in those departments. Chairs and faculty members can set the stage for greater inclusivity in their department in many ways. These efforts may require investing time into developing more inclusive practices – but they pay rich dividends, as faculty are more likely to succeed, develop collaborations, and contribute when their departments are inclusive.
Workshop: Creating and Maintaining a Diverse Department
While many academic departments profess an interest in having more racial diversity among their faculty, they often struggle to achieve this goal. In this workshop, Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Professor of Sociology, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences Washington University in St. Louis addresses common missteps departments take in trying to create more racial diversity, and offers some research-based solutions that can produce different outcomes. Professor Wingfield also discusses the importance of establishing an organizational culture that is color-conscious rather than color-blind.
Webinar: Equity for Women in Science
Presented by Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto, professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Sugimoto discusses key findings from her book, co-written with Vincent Lariviere, “Equity for Women in Science,” which is the first large-scale empirical analysis of the global gender gap in science.
Webinar: Equity Minded Workload Reform Pt 1
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. For example, dashboards with transparent displays of work activity data ensure that faculty understand performance expectations, and department Chairs and Heads are not making assignments in the dark.
Webinar: Equity Minded Workload Reform Pt 2
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.
Webinar: Mentoring for Pandemic Recovery
This session identifies strategies that faculty colleagues and members of Personnel Committees can use to help ensure faculty retention, given the challenges created by the pandemic. This session will identify concrete approaches for colleagues to use in mentoring their peers.
Webinar: The Five-R Model for Pandemic Faculty Inclusion
The COVID-19 Pandemic upended faculty careers and continues to reshape faculty evaluation and inclusion. In this webinar, we introduce our award-winning 5-R Model for pandemic inclusion, identifying the key adjustments universities should make for equitable outcomes. This session covers UMass ADVANCE tools and templates for pandemic statement writing, equitable faculty evaluation, and mentoring for pandemic recovery.
Webinar: Faculty Mentoring Practices & Plans
Mentoring faculty colleagues effectively is key to ensuring retention, a good departmental climate, and faculty success. This webinar identifies effective strategies for mentoring colleagues including establishing effective communication, building networks and collegial relationships, working through issues of equity and inclusion, and promoting work-life balance. This session covers UMass ADVANCE tools and templates for faculty mentoring plans, mentoring strategies, and inclusive departmental practices and leaves time for Q&A.
Workshop: Federal Funding Opportunities for Early Career Researchers
In this lunchtime workshop, Dr. Anjali J. Forber-Pratt shared information about opportunities and approaches for securing federal funding for their research, and how the institute she directs, the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, funds disability research and “expands society’s capacity to provide full opportunities and accommodations for its citizens with disabilities”. Dr. Forber-Pratt discusses her own career trajectory with funded research and strategies to broaden participation in science.
Webinar: Gender and Retention Figures Among US Faculty
Sponsored by UMass ADVANCE, the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, the Computation Social Science Institute (CSSI), and the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR).
Aaron Clauset, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an internationally recognized expert on network science, data science, and machine learning for complex systems. His research results have appeared in Nature, Science, PNAS, SIAM Review, Science Advances, Nature Communications, AAAI, and ICDM. His work has been covered in the popular press by Quanta Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Discover Magazine, Wired, the Boston Globe and The Guardian.
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