Our webinar introducing cohort 7 of the Virtual Visiting Scholars will take place on September 26, 4-5pm ET. This year's scholars are:
Virtual Visiting Scholars employ qualitative and/or quantitative meta-analytic and meta-synthesis techniques to identify best practices, structural barriers, or other larger themes from existing literature. Research also incorporates considerations of diversity and inclusion from an intersectional and systemic perspective.
Register at: bit.ly/VVSCohort7
Burnout has become almost ubiquitous in discussions of stress and strain in the modern workplace. Symptoms of burnout, like depression, anxiety, and greater challenges at work, are prevalent across the US workforce and particularly in STEMM fields. And while burnout impacts all people, its impact is disproportionately on more marginalized groups, such as women and people of color. Understanding burnout and how to address its impact on individuals and work is crucial to supporting a strong STEMM workforce and advancing equity.
Join NASEM on October 1 and 2, 11am-5pm ET for a workshop that will unpack these key themes and provide insight into actionable interventions.
Registration and call for submissions are open for the celebration of 25 years of the National Science Foundation’s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program. The AGEP program contributes to the NSF’s objective to foster the growth of a more capable and diverse research workforce in STEM.
The AGEP at 25: Celebrating the Past, Creating the Future Conference will be held in Crystal City, Arlington, VA on October 8-10, 2024.
Learn more and register here: https://go.edc.org/AGEP25
Register today for AccessADVANCE's upcoming webinar "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" on Tuesday, October 1, 2-4:15pm EST.
Rejecting individual accommodation as a means to access, Dr. Margaret Price draws upon established work in Black Feminist Studies and disability studies to argue for the value of collectivity and gathering. Her presentation draws upon a survey and interview study conducted with more than 300 disabled faculty and staff members. She closes with a discussion of accountability and gathering in order to point the way toward more sustainable and restorative ways of moving together in academic spacetimes.
Register at: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkceuopzgpG9V-yH-T0Q4PlzOnFPwK3oU_#/registration
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ADVANCE project (I-ADVANCE) seeks a full-time program manager to support and guide the grant program’s efforts in enhancing equity and inclusion for STEM faculty.
This role involves managing the day-to-day operations, supporting the development and implementation of I-ADVANCE activities, facilitating communication and engagement, tracking data and metrics, contributing to the educational and research activities, and collaborating with the I-ADVANCE leadership to execute program objectives and goals. The ideal candidate will collaborate with university leaders, faculty stakeholders, and other current and future partners in multiple STEM units across campus and demonstrate a commitment to fostering an equitable and inclusive culture on campus.
The full job posting can be found here: https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/11798?c=illinois
GMIS is a national nonprofit organization devoted to inspiring, supporting, and recognizing excellence in STEM, especially in underserved communities has an immediate opening for a Director of Programs to contribute to the operational success of our programs.
The foci of the position are as follows:
This position is remote, but does require occasional travel, sometimes overnight. There is a preference for candidates based in either Maryland or California. Immediate priorities are preparing for our annual conference to be held Nov 6-9 in Fort Worth, Texas. Please contact Dr. Norman Fortenberry, nfortenberry@GreatMindsInSTEM.org, CEO of Great Minds in STEM if interested.
The full job posting can be found here: https://wepan.b-cdn.net/director-of-programs-job-ad.pdf
WEPAN is partnering with NASEM to discuss their report "Supporting Family Caregivers in STEMM," on Thursday, October 16 at 1pm ET.
The report describes the ways in which the labor and contributions of caregivers are often invisible and undervalued, with a specific focus on the academic STEMM ecosystem, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, resident physicians and other trainees, tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty, staff, and researchers. This report reviews policies and practices that support caregivers, locally and nationally, and describes best practices in policy implementation and design.
Register at: bit.ly/WEPANNASEM
Join WEPAN and the NSF I-Corps Hub Northeast Region for "Innovating Together with WEPAN," the latest webinar in their Innovating Together Virtual Event Series, on Monday, September 23, 12-1pm ET.
Come learn about how the NSF I-Corps Northeast Hub works with WEPAN to advance cultures of inclusion and diversity in engineering education and professions. WEPAN programs and strategic initiatives help transform cultures across the country and are collaborating with the NSF I-Corps to provide programs, resources, and funding opportunities to support innovators, I-Corps teams, and startups towards commercialization of their innovations for societal benefit!
A panel of WEPAN leaders will share details about their programs and strategic initiatives, and will join a discussion about how innovators and I-Corps teams can participate and integrate into these various programs.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovating-together-with-wepan-tickets-1009163945527
The 2025 WEPAN Awards will be presented at the 2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD) conference in San Antonio, TX.
WEPAN Awards honor accomplishments that underscore WEPAN’s mission of advancing cultures of inclusion and diversity in engineering higher education and workplaces. A robust slate of awards recognizes key individuals, programs, and organizations who have enhanced the engineering profession.
Creating change can be difficult, and the efforts of those who work to increase participation, retention, and success of women and other underrepresented groups in engineering can often go unnoticed and unappreciated. The WEPAN Awards are designed to recognize and thank honorees for their contributions to engineering and equity work in academia, industry, and the wider community.
Applications will open September 27, 2024.
Collected resources and news regarding our Virtual Visiting Scholars andEmerging Research Workshops.
Emerging Research Workshops help move scholarship and practice forward by producing cross-disciplinary and intersectional perspectives on emerging topics critical to equity for STEM faculty. Reports are available on the following topics:
A selection of equity, diversity, and inclusion-related articles.
"Colleges are slowly releasing demographic data for the Class of 2028, giving a glimpse of the Supreme Court ruling’s impact on racial diversity. The results are decidedly mixed."
Publications, reports, or communications relevant to equity in the academy. All resources listed below are available in the ARC Network online resource library.
"This article provides a framework that reveals microaggressions as an integral component of systems of social injustice. Microaggressions are a subset of micro-interactions, minute components of everyday interactions such as facial expressions, gestures and words . . . This framework illuminates why the experiences of dominant-class people who commit microaggressions are often so disparate from those of targeted-class individuals, and why microaggressions exert such power over the recipient."
"This study explores the tenure-track experiences of two junior faculty Black men in higher education, while growing still remains vastly unexplored in higher education. Using an autoethnography approach with a critical race theory lens, the authors explore how race and institutional expectations shape their experiences along the primary components of the tenure process: research, teaching and service."
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