The STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program provides UMass Amherst faculty with the opportunity to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in faculty recruitment.
Through the fellows program, we wish to ensure that the STRIDE (Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence) Faculty Recruitment Workshops continue to be faculty centered and faculty driven, examining challenges of recruitment in different contexts. This will be a one year program, with the goal of continued engagement either through STRIDE or other recruitment initiatives developed during the fellowship year. We aim to select a cohort of faculty representing the range of diversity on our campus. No prior experience with STRIDE is necessary, only a commitment to promoting faculty diversity.
The STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Equity and Inclusion, and complements other efforts to support faculty diversity, harnessing the knowledge and experience of our faculty to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in recruitment.
2023 STRIDE Faculty Fellows:
Steve Acquah – Associate Research Professor, Chemistry; Digital Media Lab Coordinator, W.E.B. Du Bois Library
Lynn Adler – Professor, Biology
Lara Al-Hariri – Senior Lecturer II, Chemistry
Ivon Arroyo – Associate Professor, Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies
Theresa Austin – Professor, Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies
Michael Becker – Associate Professor, Linguistics
Terrie Black – Clinical Associate Professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Elizabeth Brabec – Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Soonkyu Chung – Associate Professor, Nutrition
Carey Clouse – Associate Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Justin Coles – Assistant Professor, Student Development
Isabel Espinal - Librarian, Info Literacy Spec/Hum Ref Lib
Laura Francis – Senior Lecturer, Biology
Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji – Associate Professor, Economics
Sanjiv Gupta – Associate Professor, Sociology
Christiane Healey – Senior Lecturer, Biology
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen – Associate Professor, Music and Dance
Ken Kleinman – Professor, Biostatistics
Lisa Komoroske – Assistant Professor, Environmental Conservation
Jacquie Kurland – Associate Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Joshua Michal – Associate Professor, Music and Dance
Sindiso MnisiWeeks – Assistant Professor, Political Science
Magda Oiry – Senior Lecturer, Linguistics
Shelly Peyton – Provost Professor, Chemical Engineering
Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar – Associate Professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Timothy Randhir – Professor, Environmental Conservation
Matthew Rattigan – Senior Teaching Faculty, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Cheryl Swanier – Senior Teaching Faculty, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Jay Taneja – Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neena Thota – Senior Teaching Faculty, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Garrett Washington – Associate Professor, History
Kelsey Whipple – Assistant Professor, Journalism
STRIDE Faculty Fellows:
- Attend three two-hour training sessions in late August and September 2023
- Co-lead two two-hour STRIDE Workshops over the course of the AY 2023-24
- Cultivate faculty members from their colleges/departments to become future STRIDE Faculty Fellows
- Continue engagement with STRIDE or other recruitment initiatives beyond the fellowship year (e.g. as a mentor; facilitator; or advisory board member)
- Receive a $2,500 stipend for the AY 2023-24
Contact us with any questions: facultydiversity@umass.edu
