Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 38 Issue 3

Meeting to transgress: The role of faculty learning communities in shaping more inclusive organizational cultures

KerryAnn O’Meara, Gudrun Nyunt, Lindsey Templeton, Alexandra Kuvaeva

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role faculty learning communities (FLCs), a common ADVANCE intervention, play in retention and advancement; and the ways in which FLC…

ADVANCE Scholar Program: enhancing minoritized scholars’ professional visibility

Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell, Jyotsna Vaid, Christine A. Stanley, Becky Petitt, Jericka S. Battle

The purpose of this paper is to describe a mentoring program developed at a large predominantly white research university that was aimed at retaining and advancing women faculty…

Barriers to the advancement of women of color faculty in STEM: The need for promoting equity using an intersectional framework

Maya Corneille, Anna Lee, Sherrice Allen, Jessica Cannady, Alexia Guess

The purpose of this paper is to highlight critical issues facing women of color (WOC) faculty and to synthesize the research literature in order to offer recommendations for…

It’s complicated: a multi-method approach to broadening participation in STEM

Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Stacie Furst-Holloway, Rachel Kallen, Farrah Jacquez

A lot is known about systemic barriers to broadening participation (BP) in STEM. Empirical research has demonstrated the existence and impact of implicit bias, stereotype threat…

Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership (IDEAL): A partnership to advance gender equity, diversity, and inclusion in academic STEM

Diana Bilimoria, Lynn T. Singer

The purpose of this paper is to describe the objectives, activities and outcomes of the National Science Foundation ADVANCE project, Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic…

Promoting gender diversity in STEM faculty through leadership development: From local and national leadership workshops to the online LEAD-it-Yourself! toolkit

Joyce Yen, Eve A. Riskin, Cara Margherio, Jan H. Spyridakis, Coleen M. Carrigan, Ana Mari Cauce

The advancement of equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education is dependent on institutional culture changes in academia. Faculty equity, diversity and inclusion efforts…