Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron; Rebecca Kuntz Willits, University of Akron; Linda T. Coats, Mississippi State University; Lakiesha N. Williams, Mississippi State University; Debora F. Rodrigues, University of Houston

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Faculty

. In addition she also conducts education research via an EPA ed- ucation grant, two NSF Scholarships for STEM education and a NSF collaborative research grant to host 1.5 day workshops to broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities that in engineering.Most recently she and her colleagues were awarded a NSF collaborative research grant to host summer profes- sional training and academic year activities to broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in engineering academia.Prof. Rebecca Kuntz Willits, The University of Akron Rebecca Kuntz Willits is the Margaret F. Donovan Endowed Chair for Women in Engineering, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session I

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Padma Akkaraju, Oregon State University; Joseph McGuire, Oregon State University; Thuy T. Tran, Oregon State University; Andrea Zigler, Oregon State University

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Diversity, Faculty

Education Initiative (SJEI),launched fall 2016. The Search Advocate program enhances equity, validity, and diversity inuniversity hiring. Search advocates are OSU faculty, staff, and students who are trained as searchand selection process advisors. Their preparation includes a two-part (10-hour) workshop seriesaddressing current research about implicit bias, diversity, the changing legal landscape in hiring,inclusive employment principles, practical strategies for each stage of the search process, andeffective ways to be an advocate on a search committee. The OSU search advocate directorycurrently lists nearly 600 trained search advocates on OSU’s Corvallis and affiliated campuses.The SJEI consists of two 4-hour workshops with curriculum that