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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While MSIs play a key role in promoting faculty diversity by consistently employing more educators of color than other institutions, MSI faculty also face pressures, such as heavy teaching and advising loads, high expectations for research and publishing, and limited resources for career development.

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Ninth Cohort of ELEVATE Fellows Announced

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ELEVATE fellows develop skills through hands-on workshops on academic writing, grant writing, teaching, mentoring, and achieving tenure. ELEVATE supports ongoing learning, training, and networking of early career MSI faculty by providing workshops, opportunities to network with peers, and a platform for collaboration.

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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

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. This program will feature time for faculty to learn from their mentors as well as professional development workshops, including one on grant-writing.

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Supporting research in a world of finite resources

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Considering that it would be fiscally unrealistic to reduce all faculty on the tenure track to a much lower teaching load across the board, faculty representatives had an idea. Acknowledgements C.T. would like to thank his capstone partner, Jordan Johnson (University of Alabama) for valuable feedback and discussions during the project.

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We Are Not the Same

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the American Council on Education, there are 11 HBCUs designated as Research 2 institutions, signifying their commitment to research, grant writing, and publications. HBCUs encompass public and private institutions with distinct characteristics, strengths, and challenges.