CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

FOR FACULTY COHORT PROGRAMS OPENS APRIL 10

The FDC is excited to announce that it will begin accepting applications on April 10 for the 2024-2025 faculty cohort programs!

INTERSECTIONALITY AND WOMEN OF COLOR IN ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP

APRIL 26, 2024 AT 12 PM | VIRTUAL | RSVP

As part of the Rutgers Women in Leadership series, panelists will share their leadership journey, discuss strategies to mitigate challenges related to race and gender, and provide tools for women of color to advance into leadership. Be sure to join us on April 26!

EVERY SEMESTER NEEDS A PLAN

MAY 30, 2024 AT 10 AM | VIRTUAL | RSVP

This workshop is designed to help participants plan ahead by identifying personal and professional goals, creating a strategic plan to accomplish them, and identifying the types of community, support, and accountability necessary to have the most productive and balanced semester ever!

WRITING, PROCRASTINATION, AND RESISTANCE

JUNE 6, 2024 AT 9 AM | NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS | RSVP

This hands-on workshop is designed to help participants learn how to identify what's holding you back from completing your writing projects and how to overcome those roadblocks.

I-LEAD PROGRAM ORIENTATION

The orientation for the inaugural cohort of the I-LEAD program took place at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary on April 4. View the photos here.

CULTURALLY-AWARE MENTORING TRAINING

Our Culturally-Aware Mentoring Training provided an opportunity for faculty and staff to reflect on their current approaches to mentoring and gain strategies to increase their cultural awareness as mentors going forward. View the photos here.

MUTUAL MENTORING GRANT PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM

Take a look through the photos from the March 5 symposium here!

PRIORITIZING FACULTY WELLNESS

On Feb. 8, Dr. Patti O'Brien-Richardson led a conversation at The Rutgers Club for FDC cohort program members on striving for balance amid many competing work and personal priorities.

WHAT OUR FACULTY HAVE BEEN UP TO

RUTGERS–CAMDEN BIO PROFESSOR REMOVING BARRIERS

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Dr. Kwangwon Lee (Professor of Biology, FDC Campus Director, Director of E3, Rutgers-Camden) has launched the Institute for Empowering Equitable Education in STEM (E3) within the Camden College of Arts and Sciences. E3 represents a major leap forward in making STEM education inclusive and sustainable for all. With the initial support of a generous $2.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, E3 embodies Rutgers’ dedication to revolutionizing STEM education.

LGBTQIA+ FACULTY AFFINITY NETWORK

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Dr. Caroline Harmon-Darrow and Dr. Troy Roepke will co-lead a new Faculty Affinity Network for LGBTQIA+ faculty at Rutgers. Dr. Harmon Darrow joined the School of Social Work in New Brunswick as Assistant Professor in 2022.  Dr. Troy Roepke is an associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and also serves as Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.  

TRANSNATIONAL SCHOLARS FACULTY AFFINITY NETWORK

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A Faculty Affinity Network for Transnational Scholars also launched this spring, with Dr. Ana Pairet-Vinas and Dr. Selin Bengi Gumrukcu as co-leads. Dr. Pairet-Vinas is Associate Professor of French in the School of Arts & Sciences in New Brunswick and Dr. Gumrukcu is a displaced scholar from Turkey teaching in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers, NB. They were among the recipients of a 2023 Mutual Mentoring Team Grant supporting Female International Scholars at Rutgers.

UNRAVELING FACULTY BURNOUT

BY REBECCA POPE-RUARK |

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In this unique book for women in higher education, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Ph.D., draws from her own burnout experience, as well as collected stories of faculty in various roles and career stages, interviews with coaches and educational developers, and extensive secondary research to address and mitigate burnout.

THE WHY AND HOW OF EQUITY-MINDED MENTORING

BY KRISTYN LUE & ANNIE M. WOFFORD | READ HERE

High-quality, equity-minded mentoring that honors mentors’ and mentees’ social identities can be one way to change the culture of exclusionary academic fields.