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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSIs) has released a new report that highlights the unique challenges and needs of early-career faculty at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). That’s why professional development and mentorship play a critical role in fostering a diverse and dynamic faculty at MSIs.”

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Ninth Cohort of ELEVATE Fellows Announced

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Katina Lang-Lindsey The center has announced its plans to host this ninth annual early-career faculty training program June 12-14. The three-day professional development opportunity was created specifically to address the unique needs of early career faculty members at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).

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New Briefing Lays Out Strategies and Challenges for HSIs in Getting Title V Funds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stephanie Aguilar-Smith, an assistant professor at the University of North Texas who studies grant-seeking by HSIs, the reason schools have this problem is simple: money. You have to have the money from the get-go to build this office, to staff this office, the get professional training about grant-writing, management, and implementation.”

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. Launch committees are groups of experienced faculty and administrators that will create programming for new faculty members to plan out their career trajectories, build rapports, and develop mentor relationships.

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Supporting research in a world of finite resources

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As part of this challenge, we embarked on identifying some of the key issues affecting faculty research productivity within the College of Science and Engineering at CMU. We are currently in the process of developing guidelines that would allow us to pilot a reduced teaching “program” for our most research-active faculty within the college.

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Accountability Group

Clair Kamp Dush

We talked about my writing struggles, and she mentioned that one strategy that really helped her get her writing done was her accountability group. I started an accountability group in the Fall of 2016 with three fellow faculty members, two assistant professors and another associate professor like myself.

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Get Rejected on a Regular Basis

Clair Kamp Dush

As a tenure-track faculty member at a research intensive university, my (federal) grantsmanship expectations are high if I want to get promoted to full, or to have the money to get resources for my grad students and myself. I hope my experience can give everyone who has doubts about their abilities some hope.

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