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Faculty and Staff Diversity

 

Building Future Faculty program -- A two-day all-expenses paid workshop for advanced graduate students and post-doctoral scholars who are interested in pursuing academic careers and who are committed to promoting diversity in higher education..

PURPOSE Institute: Promoting Under-represented Presence on Science and Engineering Faculties

For Prospective Faculty:

We view faculty diversity as crucial to building a campus community that fosters demographic and intellectual diversity. When you come to campus for a visit, if you would like us to arrange an opportunity for you to interact with any particular group of students, faculty, and/or staff to gain an additional understanding of our campus climate, please contact Dr. Marcia Gumpertz, Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff Diversity, at 919-515-7826 or gumpertz@ncsu.edu We will make every effort to facilitate those meetings.

 

Assistant Professors' Learning Community -- This is a reading and discussion group led by current faculty with special emphasis on issues of importance to assistant professors --

  • Friday, Sept 5, 2008, 12:25-1:15, Talley Student Center Board Room: "Getting Started on a Research Project "
  • Tuesday, Oct 7, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Talley Student Center Board Room: "Where to Find Help, Answers to Questions"
  • Friday, Oct 31, 2008, 12:25-1:15, Talley Student Center Board Room: " Writing Broader Impacts Sections of Grant Proposals"

Resources for Creating an Inclusive Classroom

Diversity Support for Research Grants

 

 

Resources for recruiting a diverse faculty (e.g. Sample language for position descriptions, best practices for search committees, sample candidate evaluation forms, information on Target of Opportunity hires, spousal hiring and job search assistance for non-academic spouses, online resources, lists of scholars and job listings)

Inclusive Excellence: A Call to Action. What Campus Leaders Can Do To Enhance Our Demographic Diversity.

Retention Plans for Colleges and Major Administrative Units -- a resource for deans

 

 

Mentoring: Example departmental faculty mentoring programs at NCSU

Giving and Getting Career Advice: A Guide for Junior and Senior Faculty developed at the University of Michigan. Some parts are specific to UM, but most apply equally well to NCSU.

Tenure and Promotion: ADEPT (Awareness of Decisions in Evaluating Promotion and Tenure) Instrument developed at Georgia Tech.

BRIDGES: Academic Leadership for Women: an intensive professional development program for women in higher education who seek to gain or strengthen their academic leadership capabilities. It is designed to help women identify, understand, and move into leadership roles in the academy.

 

 

NCSU Policies and Programs for Families and Parents-to-Be (including parental leave policies, extension of the tenure clock, flexibility in time to tenure, child care) --

Automatic Tenure Clock Extension for faculty with a new child in the family or who take extended family medical leave has been approved (6/3/08). The full detail is contained in the revised tenure clock regulation.

Task Force on Women Faculty - Final Report is now available (6/10/08)

Council on the Status of Women/Women's Center/Association of Women Faculty Happy Hour Schedule for 2008-09 -- All staff and faculty are welcome!

Facts and Figures (faculty and staff demographics, 2006 faculty well-being survey results by race/ethnicity and by sex, COACHE survey results)

 

Reading Room

NCSUWomen and NCSUDiversity email lists

Interested in getting involved? Contact the following organizations or volunteer to serve on one of the following committees.

 

Goals of the Office for Diversity and African American Affairs with respect to Faculty and Staff Diversity

  • University Diversity Advisory Committee -- contact jose_picart@ncsu.ed

Marcia Gumpertz •Asst Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff Diversity • gumpertz@ncsu.edu

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