Provost Office Events for Faculty

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.

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

• • Laura W. Perna, Vice Provost for Faculty, GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania
  • Beth Winkelstein, Interim Provost, Eduardo D. Glandt President’s Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania
  • Wendell Pritchett, Interim President, James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education, University of Pennsylvania

12:10 pm – Insights from COACHE data

• • Todd Benson, Executive Director and Principal Investigator, Collaborative On Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) (View presentation here)

12:30 pm – Understanding the challenges mid-career faculty of color experience

• • Keynote Address by Tricia Rose, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, Brown University
  • Moderated by Vivian Gadsden, William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education and Chair-Elect of the Faculty Senate, University of Pennsylvania

1:30 pm – Actions institutions can take to enable mid-career faculty of color to thrive

• • Winston (Wole) Soboyejo – Provost, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Abbas Benmamoun – Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Duke University
  • Eve J. Higginbotham – Vice Dean for Inclusion and Diversity and Professor of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
  • Andrea Romero, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona
  • Moderated by Sydney Freeman, Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania; Professor, University of Idaho

2:55 pm – Closing and next steps