Category Archives: equitable policies & practices

Where We Stand – Hope to see you on Monday, Nov 4!

collaboration & leadership, equitable policies & practices, Events, Institutional Climate, JHU, Unconscious Bias

Where We Stand: Mentorship, Community, & Equity

Of course, bias exists—conscious and unconscious. At this event we’ll generate concrete ways to counter those norms and cultivate academic communities in which everyone can do their best work.

This event is for the entire Homewood campus.

We hope you will join Dean Beverly Wendland and the WFF@H for a lively evening.

Please expect: good food; Sharpies; brainstorming; a slide show; reading materials to browse; presentations about bias; Legos for kids; a wall for you to post anonymous do’s & don’ts related to mentorship & community building; and discussions led by undergrads, grad students, staff, faculty, and administrators.

The event is Mon, Nov 4 from 5:30-7pm in the Mudd Atrium. Sorry about the late hour, but this is the time we are able to get an appropriate space. Kids, friends, family–all are welcome.

 

 

 

Fifth Annual Where We Stand event!

collaboration & leadership, equitable policies & practices, Events, Institutional Climate, JHU

Women Faculty Forum hopes to see you on Monday, November 4, from 5:30-7pm at Mudd Atrium. We always have good food & good company, and children are always welcome and shamelessly adored.img_1282

Our theme this year:

Mentorship, Community, and Equity

For you as a staff member, student, postdoc, or faculty member:

What is one big challenge you see to fostering equity in the academy?

What is one specific example of meaningful support that you have received, given, witnessed, or hoped for?

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Students and advisors in Center for Student Success have thought a lot about how both systemic and personal approaches to mentorship and community-building can undergird a good experience in college. Join us!

 

Image: https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/student-success/hop-in/

WFF@H Annual Report 2018-19

collaboration & leadership, equitable policies & practices, Institutional Climate, JHU, teaching, Unconscious Bias

Screen Shot 2019-09-22 at 9.55.21 PMIt’s all here in one handy pdf – our year with the NAS report on sexual and gender harassment, ongoing discussions around graduate student mentoring, our exchanges with leadership on student evaluations of teaching (SETs).

Please share with your colleagues and leaders. Thank you!

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Yale’s Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Program Loses 13 Tenured Professors

equitable policies & practices, Institutional Climate

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Excerpt:

When 13 professors at Yale University said on Friday they would cut ties with the institution’s ethnicity, race, and migration program, they said their decision was rooted in a history of inequity.

The professors, all senior-level scholars, said the program had been stuck in a vulnerable position for years, without the hiring authority, resources, or stability that departments and other programs have. And despite promises from senior administrators, the faculty members, many of whom are scholars of color, said nothing had changed.

So they resigned from the program en masse, in hopes of sending a message that the model — a “formula of borrowed labor,” one professor called it — was unsustainable.

Read more here: “Yale Professors’ Protest Casts Doubt on a Big Faculty-Diversity Initiative:”

Image:  https://erm.yale.edu/

 

“Wisdom without apology”

collaboration & leadership, equitable policies & practices, Institutional Climate, Unconscious Bias

Today, a brief excerpt from Tina Brown’s NYT op-ed “What Happens When Women Stop Leading Like Men: Jacinda Ardern, Nancy Pelosi and the power of female grace”: 

It’s past time for women to stop trying to cram themselves into outdated NASA spacesuits designed for an alien masculine physique. Salvation doesn’t lie in pursuing traditional male paths of ejaculatory self-elevation. In drawing on women’s wisdom without apology and pushing that wisdom forward into positions of power, we can soothe our world and, maybe, even save it.

Image: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/women-leadership-jacinda-ardern.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Related: Marisa Porges, “What the Failed All-Female Spacewalk Tells Us About Office Temperature: In a for-men, by-men world, the little things still really do hurt women”