COMMUNITY NEWS & EVENTS
EDEFI IN THE NEWS
More Black Students Enroll in HBCUs Following Hate Crime Reports: Study
https://www.highereddive.com/news/more-black-students-enroll-in-hbcus-following-hate-crime-reports-study/593247/
Students of Color Face Challenges in STEM
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/students-of-color-face-challenges-in-stem/5703743.html
Racial Stereotypes Drive Students of Color Away From STEM, but Many Still Persist
https://theconversation.com/racial-stereotypes-drive-students-of-color-away-from-stem-but-many-still-persist-149379
Universities With More Racial Segregation by Major Graduate Fewer Black Students Into High-Paying Fields
https://diverseeducation.com/article/199072/
Equity Ethic: As STEM Fields Become More Racially Diverse, New Values Emerge
https://www.hepg.org/blog/equity-ethic-as-stem-fields-become-more-racially-d
Ready to Be an Ally for Black Academics? Here’s a Start
https://www.chronicle.com/article/ready-to-be-an-ally-for-black-academics-heres-a-start
How to Be an Ally Outside of Hispanic Heritage Month
https://alltogether.swe.org/2020/10/how-to-be-an-ally-outside-of-hispanic-heritage-month
How Do We Create Systemic Change
https://alltogether.swe.org/2020/09/how-do-we-create-systemic-change/
Hardest Working States in America
https://wallethub.com/edu/hardest-working-states-in-america/52400
Why STEM Needs to Focus on Social Justice
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/why-stem-needs-to-focus-on-social-justice/
A Mission of Inclusion
https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=60703&i=667254&view=contentsBrowser&%3Barticle_id=3718240&%3Bver=html5&%3Bview=articleBrowser
Universities Are Freezing Tenure Clocks. What Will That Mean for Junior Faculty of Color?
https://www.higheredjobs.com/articles/articleDisplay.cfm?ID=2238
In Our Own Words: Institutional
Betrayals
https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/03/06/underrepresented-faculty-members-share-real-reasons-they-have-left-various
S. David Wu Named First Asian American President in CUNY System – Higher Education
https://diverseeducation.com/article/165873/
The Chronicle of Higher Education – Selected New Books on Higher Education
Diversifying STEM: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender is featured
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247906
Pew Study: Faculty-Student Diversity Divide Persists
https://www.naicu.edu/news-events/headline-news/2019/08/pew-study-faculty-student-diversity-divide-persists
Endless Exodus: Faculty of Color Leave the Academy in Search of Fulfillment
https://diverseeducation.com/article/150672/
Former professor says University of Delaware tenure process stifles diversity
https://whyy.org/articles/former-professor-says-university-of-delaware-tenure-process-stifles-diversity/
Being a Black Academic in America – The Chronicle of Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190418-black-academic
Despite Promises, Hiring of Black Faculty at White Colleges Declined – The Hechinger Report
https://hechingerreport.org/after-colleges-promised-to-increase-it-hiring-of-black-faculty-declined/
How can Universities Keep Minorities in STEM Graduate Programs – The Christian Science Monitor
https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2016/1026/How-can-universities-keep-minorities-in-STEM-graduate-programs
Hundreds Convene for ‘MLK to BLM- 50 Years of Struggle’ Symposium -Vanderbilt University News
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/09/27/hundreds-convene-for-mlk-to-blm-50-years-of-struggle-symposium/
It’s not just About the Money, say STEM Students of Color – Research News @ Vanderbilt
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/10/19/its-not-just-about-the-money-say-stem-students-of-color/
Students of Color Study STEM with a Focus On Social Justice – Wisconsin Public Radio
https://www.wpr.org/students-color-study-stem-focus-social-justice
Labels like ‘Asian fail’ and ‘Black genius’ are no joke for STEM students of color: Report
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/01/14/labels-like-asian-fail-and-black-genius-are-no-joke-for-stem-students-of-color-nsf-report/
NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS
Black Tech Ecosystems: A Proposed Framework for Defining, Assessing, & Developing Black Tech Communities
Undue Burden
Breaking the Black Box: How Machines Learn to be Racist
https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-how-machines-learn-to-be-racist?word=Trump
Council Graduate Schools Data Show There’s No One To Way Use Doctorate
Women, Blacks, Most Likely to Leave STEM Careers, New Research by AIR Finds
Survival Factor
The Racial Bias Built Into Photography
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-bias-photography.html
TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, but Their Body Scanners Might Be
The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn PhDs
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/lack-of-black-doctoral-students/587413/
The 2018 Status Report on Engineering Education: A Snapshot of Diversity in Degrees Conferred in Engineering
‘A Toxic Culture of Overwork’: Inside the Graduate Student Mental Health Crisis
Discrimination and a Struggle for Legitimacy: Faculty of Color and Female Faculty Experience an Uneven Playing Field
https://heri.ucla.edu/press-release/FAC-2016-Press-Release.pdf
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November 18-21, 2020 | New Orleans, LA
https://www.ashe.ws/conference
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