| WEBSITE – Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit
This toolkit was designed by the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health to provide health professional faculty a set of tools to carefully plan and document their community-engaged scholarship and produce strong portfolios for promotion and tenure. As faculty from underrepresented populations strive towards tenure, many struggle with balancing the demands of the academy with their commitment to support colleagues and students dealing with similar struggles in the educational pipeline. This toolkit can serve as a model on how to incorporate community service and civic engagement as part of the tenure process. (added April, 2008)
MMUF
- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
The Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF as
of July 2003, renamed the Mellon Mays Undergraduate
Fellowship) program is the centerpiece of The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation’s initiatives to increase
diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher
learning. The MMUF program is administered by over a
hundred campus coordinators at 34 institutions and a
consortium of 38 historically black colleges and universities
within the membership of the United Negro College Fund.
Colleges and universities have made strides in diverisfying their student bodies,
however, they have not achieved similiar success with
efforts to diversity their staffs. In this book, JoAnn
Moody illustrates the the barriers that minorities and
women encounter as they enter the professoriate. The
author offers several practical solutions for campuses,
departments, and individual faculty to follow, which
may improve their evaluation, recruitment, retention,
and mentorship of women and minorities.
Diversifying
the Faculty, Caroline S.V. Turner
Diversifying
the Faculty offers practical strategies for institutions
interested in enhancing their faculty diversity. Best
and promising hiring practices from a variety of institutions
are interspersed throughout the text, and an extensive
annotated bibliography and several appendices are included
to help search committees and institutional leaders
in this important challenge. This link will take you
to the book's Introduction.
Shattering the Silencesis a documentary film
that explores issues of faculty diversity
in American higher education. The film
illustrates ways in which teaching and
research by scholars of color affect
students, university communities, and
the academic disciplines in which they
work, and the triumphs and disappointments
they encounter in their personal lives
and academic careers. Ordering information
is available through California Newsreel,
phone: 415/621-6196.
Seeks to increase the number of minority
students who qualify to teach in higher
education. Program goals include securing
multi-year financial aid for graduate
students, building a culture of support
for diversity on campus, providing mentoring
and training for effective teaching,
and building coalitions with other national
programs.
Member of the Compact for Faculty Diversity
that seeks to promote educational opportunities
at New England colleges and universities.
Three diversity programs include: science
doctoral program, 12-month dissertation
scholar in residence program, and production
of a directory of advanced minority
graduate students seeking faculty positions.
Member of the Compact for Faculty Diversity
that works with 16 member states to
increase faculty diversity. SREB's Doctoral
Scholars program works to increase the
number of minority students earning
doctorates in fields where they are
most underrepresented. SREB also helps
states establish independent, self-sustaining
funding to support the Doctoral Scholars.
This program offers scholarship awards
to Latinos pursuing doctoral degrees
or studying theology. The Hispanic Theological
Initative also provides these students
with mentoring, networking, and community
building opportunitites.
This group provides two different programs
for undergraduate and graduate students
aimed at increasing the number of diverse
faculty at Illinois schools.
This program offers financial assistance
to students pursuing master's degrees
or doctorate degrees at Michigan institutes
of higher education.
This groups recruits and mentors African
American graduate students in engineering
and the sciences.
Numerous programs focusing on diversity
including programs for faculty development,
minority student recruitment, and women
in science and engineering.
The Ph.D. Project is an alliance of
corporations, higher education institutions,
and academic and professional associations
interested in increasing the diversity
of business school faculty.
Published by the Committee on Institutional
Cooperation, this directory lists women
who have recently completed their Ph.D.
degrees at a CIC University in the fields
of science, engineering, and mathematicss.
Created by the Black Graduate Engineering
and Science Students of UC Berkeley,
this database contains records of doctoral
candidates, recent graduates, and professionals
seeking a position in academia.
All database members are of African
descent and plan to obtain a tenure
track faculty position within 5-7 years.
This directory is a comprehensive
national listing of minority and women
students who have already received or
are about to receive their doctoral
or master’s degrees. In its most
recent addition it lists approximately
4,500 Black, Hispanic, American Indian,
Asian American, and white women students
in nearly 80 fields in the sciences,
engineering, the social sciences and
the humanities serving as an important
tool for increasing the representation
of minority men and women and white
women in university faculties.
In this rare and candid report, MIT
admits to having discriminated against
female faculty members in their School
of Science. Work on this report began
five years ago when three female faculty
members started collecting data on male
and female faculty across science departments.
A committee was created to inform the
administration of the biases. And in
the four years since, MIT has raised
women's salaries, increased research
money and space for women, awarded them
key committee seats, and increased pensions
for a handful of retired women to what
they would have been paid if the salary
inequities had not existed. Plans are
being made to extend similar efforts
campus wide.
On October 18-20, 1998, over 300 faculty,
administrators, and students from 36
states participated in a national symposium
entitled "Keeping Our Faculties:
Addressing the Recruitment and Retention
of Faculty of Color in Higher Education"
sponsored by the University of Minnesota
and the Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities. This meeting provided
space for dialogue among scholars, practitioners,
and policy makers aimed at generating
useful strategies for increasing faculty
diversity on college and university
campuses. This executive summary distills
information from the presentations of
several symposium speakers with particular
focus on their recommendations. A list
of resources
is also provided.
This case study examines the institution's
cultural norms and how these norms affect
underrepresented faculty. Study results
identify social interaction and reward
process norms and indicate that underrepresented
faculty experience these norms differently
than majority faculty. It also suggests
that underrepresented faculty are often
disadvantaged by these norms. See Diversity
Digest for a study synopsis.
This briefing paper debunks several
myths about affirmative action and faculty
hiring in higher education. It provides
facts about the history of diversity
in higher education, the actual numbers
of women and minority faculty members
in colleges and universities today,
and how the recruitment process works.
FEF is a non-profit corporation with
the goal of enhancing the educational
advancement of historically underrepresented
groups by offering programs and consulting
services related to faculty and staff
recruitment. Through their consulting
work, FEF maintains and draws from a
custom designed database of historically
underrpresented faculty and adminstrators.
This database stems directly from their
McKnight
Doctoral Fellowship (MDF) program
and the Minority
Particpation in Legal Education (MPLE)
program.
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