August/September 2020 Meetings

Topic: Introduction to NC AGEP ALLIANCE AND ITS MEMBERS AND Mentoring

To access a recording of the meeting, please click on link below and use password: NsFaGeP

Introduction to NC AGEP ALLIANCE:

  1. View this video by Adrianna Kezar on culture change:

  • Dr. Adrianna Kezar is a member of the AGEP-NC External Advisory Board and is the author of How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading and Enacting Change. This video is a recording of part of a webinar Dr. Kezar presented to Deans and Provosts at the May AGEP NC Alliance Meeting.

2. Read the following:

Mentoring Skills

Readings/Resources:


See below for Guidelines for Plans for Diversity in Doctoral Programs


AGEP Department Diversity Plan Guidlines updated2020.pdf

SEPTEMBER 2020

September Newsletter

October 2020 Meeting

Joint Meeting

Please review the Departmental plans from NCSU: https://agep-nc.org/index.php/agep-nc-alliance/agep-nc-fellows/department-plans/


Do Faculty Diversity Programs Work?

Evidence from 600 Universities, 1993-2015

Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:30-1:30 pm

Interested in attending? Zoom Link and Registration Here

Frank Dobbin

Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences

Department of Sociology, Harvard University


Frank Dobbin's Powerpoint Presentation

Video Recording of Frank Dobbin's Presentation

Responses to Questions from the Webinar Chat

Mentoring beyond Hierarchies: Multi-Mentor Systems and Models: Beronda L. Montgomery, Michigan State University and Stephani C. Page, Duke University


October Newsletter


November/December 2020

TOPIC: Best Practices for Establishing Authorship

Readings for the Meeting:

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER NEWSLETTER - Download into WORD for live links

JANUARY 2021 MEETING

AGEP-NC ALLIANCE WINTER MEETING

Winter Alliance Meeting

In this 10-part series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, you’ll hear the personal mentorship stories of leaders in academia, business, and the media, in their own words. Learn how evidence-based mentorship practices can help you develop the skills to engage in the most effective STEMM mentoring relationships possible

FEBRUARY 2021 Meeting

Joint meeting



MARCH 2021 MEETING

March Newsletter

APRIL 2021

April Newsletter

Also - two exciting events coming up in May:

  • May 11-17. View the AGEP-NC video in the STEM for All Video Showcase and vote for our video for the People's Choice Award!

The link will be live starting on Tuesday, May 11: http://videohall.com/p/1973

  • May 20. Webinar by Keivan Stassun: A Model for Dramatically Increasing Diversity at the PhD Level in STEM.

Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct-f48rQ0SWQ6osEPpvkjWmsqpaGCP6fj5MYLZ9_ll7smV2w/viewform


MAY 2021


JUNE 2021


VIRTUAL AGEP-NC ALLIANCE SUMMER MEETING

The agenda for the 2021 AGEP-NC Summer Alliance Meeting has been finalized. It will be held virtually via Zoom on Monday, July 12, 2021 9:30am - 3:30pm. Please note that during the Showcase of Fellows’ Departmental Plans for making changes to policies and practices to promote the success of URM doctoral students at 2:30 our own Dr. Adam Reitzel will be presenting. This annual meeting is the time when the campus leaders and AGEP-NC leadership, SLC, EAB, and faculty fellows from the three Alliance institutions get together to share ideas. The goals of this year's meeting are

  1. Gain a better understanding of institutional racism in the university setting and how it is manifested today;

  2. Think about and share actionable ways to shift policy, practices and culture in STEM doctoral education.

The agenda and abstracts of the presentation and workshop appear below.

Registration and Zoom Link

(in case the link doesn't work: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSTrWcJ4A4taLImebUIIkJHerGds9CeagigEo3P9X2UOD5KQ/viewform )

Agenda

  • 9:30-9:45 Welcome and Introductions

  • 9:45-10:00 Opening Remarks from NSF, Dr. Karen Marrongelle, Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources, NSF

  • 10:00-11:00 Race Really Matters, Dr. David Asai, Sr. Director, Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • 11:15-12:15 The Absence of Diversity Hurts Everyone (Workshop Part 1), Dr. Karen L. Dace, Vice Chancellor, Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, IUPUI

  • 12:45–1:45 Accountability (Workshop Part 2)

  • 1:45- 2:15 Whole Group Discussion

  • 2:30-3:00 Showcase of Fellows’ Departmental Plans for making changes to policies and practices to promote the success of URM doctoral students

  • 3:00-3:30 Recognition of Outgoing NCA&T and UNCC Fellows & Closing of General Meeting

  • 3:30-4:30 External Advisory Board and Leadership Team closed meeting

Presentation and Workshop Abstracts

Race Really Matters

Our failure to achieve greater racial diversity in science is appalling. Today, persons from excluded ethnic and racial groups (PEERs) are over-represented among students entering college intending to study STEM. Yet the rate of PEER persistence in STEM is only half that of non-PEERs, and these relative rates of persistence have not changed in three decades (see Asai, 2020). In those three decades, our nation has spent gazillions of dollars on interventions mainly aimed at “fixing the student.” Unfortunately, comparatively little has been spent on efforts to change the culture of science and higher education. The result is that on many campuses diversity programming remains an extra appendage not fully integrated into the core values of the institution, and, when the grant funding ends, so too does the programming. In his 1993 seminal book, Race Matters, Cornel West reminds us that culture is structural and manifested by our behaviors. Thus our challenge: How can we change the culture of science and education so that it is inclusive?

The Absence of Diversity Hurts Everyone (Workshop Part I)

There is no academic (theoretical, technological, scientific) excellence when diverse ways of knowing and being are absent. The record is clear: diversity enhances our exchanges, processes and outcomes, yet many academic disciplines have made modest-to-no progress to increase the presence of students and faculty of Color. During this presentation, we will discuss the ways this absence harms our understanding and research at very high costs that everyone ends up paying.

Accountability (Workshop Part II)

What can you do to create the change necessary to make your departments, colleges and institutions inclusive? In Breakout Groups, participants take information from Drs. Asai and Dace to identify specific actions they can take to confront and combat racism and racist structures.

Keynote and Workshop Speakers

David Asai, Senior Director, Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

David Asai is Senior Director for Science Education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute where he directs the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs group (UGP). UGP grants and fellowships programs are aimed at the development of students in the domain of formal education (http://www.hhmi.org/developing-scientists). David’s bachelor’s degree is in chemistry from Stanford University and his PhD is in biochemistry from Caltech. Before coming to HHMI in 2008, David was Professor and Head of Biological Sciences at Purdue University, and Stuart Mudd Professor and Chair of Biology at Harvey Mudd College. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology. Some recent essays are:

  • Asai, D.J. 2020. Race Matters. Cell 181: 754-757.

  • Asai, D.J. 2020. J. Micro. Biol. Educ. 21(2): 1-2.

  • Asai, D.J. 2020. Three R’s for Inclusive Education. American Society for Cell Biology newsletter, September issue, pp. 5-6.

  • Poodry, C.A. and D.J. Asai. 2019. Questioning Assumptions. CBE-Life Sci. Educ. 17:es7.

Karen L. Dace, Vice Chancellor, Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis

Dr. Karen L. Dace is the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Dr. Dace holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a doctorate in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa. Her record speaks to a long and varied experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion and she has held positions in a variety of institutions that demonstrate great breath, depth, and flexibility. She is a well–respected scholar who, in 2012, published an edited book,Women of Color and White Women in Conversation (Routledge), that discussed the challenges of working across race in university settings. She has extensive experience collaborating with on–campus and off–campus offices to encourage connections, transform campus climate, improve morale and productivity, and foster a sense of belonging.