Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. This lack of representation has long been blamed as a pipeline problem — that there are fewer women receiving STEM PhDs and therefore fewer candidates to teach. But as time has passed, that excuse has rung less true.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

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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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

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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