This workshop will review and discuss strategies for recognizing and addressing bias in faculty search processes.
The Office of the Provost is excited to offer an in-person workshop to supplement the asynchronous bias training and continue engagement throughout the semester. Please register through Workday Learning below. If there are questions about bias training and requirements, please contact Colleen McEntee at cmcentee@upenn.edu.
This workshop will review and discuss strategies for recognizing and addressing bias in faculty search processes.
The Office of the Provost is excited to offer an in-person workshop to supplement the asynchronous bias training and continue engagement throughout the semester. Please register through Workday Learning below. If there are questions about bias training and requirements, please contact Colleen McEntee at cmcentee@upenn.edu.
This year, the Office of the Provost is offering an asynchronous bias training course through Workday Learning. The training is funded by the National Science Foundation and was developed by University of New Hampshire faculty (read more about the training here). It is evidence based and developed by faculty for faculty. Take the course in Workday Learning here.
If you have any questions, please email cmcentee@upenn.edu.
Schedule:
This event is invite-only.
This year, the Office of the Provost is offering an asynchronous bias training course through Canvas. The training is funded by the National Science Foundation and was developed by University of New Hampshire faculty (read more about the training here). It is evidence based and developed by faculty for faculty.
Register for the course with this form and you will be invited to participate in the course through Canvas. Please allow at least 5-7 business days to process the registration. If you have any questions, please email conniech@upenn.edu.
To take a curricular approach to bias training, this workshop will review and debrief the cases presented in the asynchronous training and discuss ways to push beyond individual instances of bias.
The Office of the Provost is excited to offer an in-person workshop to supplement the asynchronous bias training and continue engagement throughout the semester. Please RSVP with the Qualtrics survey below. If there are questions about bias training and requirements, please contact Connie Chang at conniech@upenn.edu.
The Office of the Provost is excited to offer an in-person workshop to supplement the asynchronous bias training and continue engagement throughout the semester.
Rubrics and other evaluation criteria are powerful tools that can act as guardrails in bias prevention throughout the faculty search process. In this interactive session, we will discuss and strategize best practices on how to utilize rubrics to promote equity and excellence.
Emerging and current faculty leaders from across Penn are invited to the Provost’s Leadership Academy. Over two half days, this program will focus on the theme of Leading Through Change. The 2022 Provost Leadership Academy will be held on October 13th and October 14th from 8:30 am – 1:30 pm on both days.
Thursday, October 13th
Friday, October 14th
In this 90-minute workshop, Dr. White-Lewis will present empirical research on how typical features of academic workplaces and faculty hiring processes cement racial inequities into the professoriate. Suitable for faculty, department chairs, and deans, attendees will learn and develop strategies to improve decision-making contexts and advance racial equity throughout faculty hiring. Boxed lunches to-go will be provided.
Speaker:
Damani White-Lewis (he/him) is a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. He studies racial equity issues in academic careers and contexts using theories and methods from organizational behavior and social psychology. His research on faculty hiring received four national awards and honors from prominent education organizations such as the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He is Co-Principal Investigator of an NSF-funded project which uses experimental vignette methods to test which kinds of interventions positively impact how much DEI weighs in tenure and promotion decisions.
Dr. White-Lewis’ research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and has been published in top education and science journals such as The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, CBE-Life Sciences Education, and Teachers College Record. As a public scholar he has been featured in outlets such as Inside Higher Ed and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and regularly consults with college campuses and external organizations to address issues related to racial equity, institutional transformation, and systemic change in higher education.
Read summary and takeaways from symposium here.
While much attention understandably focuses on how to recruit a more diverse faculty, also important are structures and supports that enable mid-career faculty from underrepresented groups to thrive. This symposium discusses the challenges that mid-career faculty experience and the actions institutions can take to address these challenges.
12:00 pm – Welcome
12:10 pm – Insights from COACHE data
12:30 pm – Understanding the challenges mid-career faculty of color experience
1:30 pm – Actions institutions can take to enable mid-career faculty of color to thrive
2:55 pm – Closing and next steps
Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu
Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
View recording of the event here.
In almost every organizational setting, today’s leaders are grappling with challenging issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. “Implicit bias” and “structural bias” have become familiar terms in everyday discussions about diversity, but the terms are not always well-defined. Drawing on recent work convened by the National Academy of Sciences, Justice Liu will discuss the evidentiary basis for implicit bias and structural bias, as well as possible legal responses and mitigation strategies applicable to a variety of institutions and organizations.
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, J.D., LL.M. S.J.D.
Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow 2021-22
In 1966, Dr. King informed a reporter that he refused to “segregate” his “moral concerns.” It was the same year that Dr. King famously informed a Chicago audience of doctors that “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” Yet, this was also the year that Dr. King received an award from a leading reproductive health organization. In his long-overlooked speech, which Professor Goodwin centers in her talk, he made the moral case for reproductive liberty, drawing connections to civil rights, racial and economic justice, as well as the alignment between the social justice movements to liberate women as well as that to advance racial equality. Professor Goodwin considers the lessons to be drawn from Dr. King and the moral case for reproductive justice.
This session, lead by Senior Vice President for Institutional Affairs Joann Mitchell and Associate Vice President Michele Rovinsky-Mayer, open to department chairs, associate deans, and diversity search advisors, will provide guidance on how to handle Title IX and bias related issues.
Submit questions prior to the event: provost-fac@upenn.edu
This session, lead by University Ombuds Jennifer Pinto-Martin, open to associate deans, department chairs, and Penn Fellows, will address common academic conflicts and resources and strategies for addressing them.
Register for the event: https://pennprovostevents.wufoo.com/forms/wayanst0j3durm/
Submit questions prior to the event: provost-fac@upenn.edu
This session, featuring Vice Provost for Faculty Laura Perna and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Lubna Mian, and open to associate deans, department chairs, and Penn Fellows, will focus on situations involving difficult and controversial faculty speech, and how faculty leaders can address them best.
Register for the event: https://pennprovostevents.wufoo.com/forms/wayanst0j3durm/
Submit questions prior to the event: provost-fac@upenn.edu