Stanford Report, June 11, 2008
Twelve PhD students have been selected as the first cohort of the DARE (Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence) Doctoral Fellowship Program, a two-year award designed to help better prepare graduate students from diverse backgrounds for careers in academia.
The recipients are Deji Akinwande, electrical engineering; Jessica Allen, immunology; Matthew Anderson, genetics; Courtney Bonam, psychology; Nate Cardin, chemistry; Kenneth Gibbs Jr., immunology; Jennifer Harford Vargas, English; Laura Lopez-Sanders, sociology; Shantal Marshall, psychology; Marcela Muniz, education; Ronald Painter, chemistry; and Daniel Soto, applied physics.
"As a group, this inaugural cohort is diverse on a wide range of dimensions that we value in the university and in the academic profession," said Patricia J. Gumport, vice provost for graduate education. Stanford defines diversity broadly to include underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities; first-generation college students; women in natural science and engineering fields; gay, lesbian and transgender students; disabled students; and others whose backgrounds and experiences would diversify the professoriate in their academic fields.
The aim of the new $4.5 million program, which was announced last December, is to help advanced doctoral students in the last two years of their program, and whose presence will help diversify the professoriate, to investigate and prepare for and, ultimately, launch successful careers at colleges and universities.
Under the four-year program, Stanford will select 36 DARE fellows.
In addition to tuition and a stipend, the DARE Program provides an integrated set of activities designed to prepare students for the full range of faculty responsibilities and to enable them to take on academic leadership roles. Each fellow will receive up to $2,000 for a small project—such as mentoring an undergraduate or bringing speakers to Stanford—that is designed to enhance diversity on campus. Each fellow also will receive funding for a recruiting trip to a college or university to encourage promising undergraduates to attend graduate school.
Gumport said the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education received more than 100 "very impressive" applications from doctoral students in 37 departments, and the eight-member committee that reviewed the applications faced a "tremendously challenging task." Twelve alternates also were selected. http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june11/dare-061108.html
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Stanford launches Faculty Development Initiative to recruit best scholars of ethnicity and race
Stanford University has launched a five-year effort to appoint the best young scholars in the nation whose research focuses on the study of ethnicity and race.
The endeavor, known as the Faculty Development Initiative, involves marshaling new university resources and leadership to recruit and hire rising stars in the humanities and social sciences. It directly follows Provost John Etchemendy's commitment last spring to create 10 incremental faculty positions in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), which now consists of more than 100 affiliated faculty members from 15 departments and five schools.
In September, the center, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, began the search to enhance "diversity" at Stanford, meaning both extending the range of fields of study at the university as well as the race, gender and sexual orientation of the faculty. "The tried and true methods of recruiting, hiring and retaining well-qualified and diverse faculty members have not been enough," Etchemendy said. "We must take a new, more vigorous approach to fostering diversity if we are to remain at the forefront of knowledge, creativity and public service."
The initiative leverages a gift of $2.5 million, matched by another $2 million in a grant from the Hewlett Foundation to the School of Humanities and Sciences. Through a variety of search strategies that will identify outstanding prospects—from advanced graduate students finishing their doctoral dissertations to assistant and newly tenured associate professors—Stanford is seeking the most promising talent in academia for appointment.
Al Camarillo, professor of history and the Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service, is leading the initiative. While acknowledging that the initiative is unprecedented in many ways, he noted that it also continues a Stanford tradition.
"When I was hired by Stanford at age 26, I was struck by the fact that so many of my colleagues in the History Department and elsewhere across the university had begun their careers at Stanford and had stayed for 10, 20, 30 or more years," Camarillo said. "It was made clear to me early on by my senior colleagues that Stanford was a place where you could advance your career, and with the support of abundant university resources make your mark in your field of expertise.
"The CCSRE's Faculty Development Initiative will weave this longstanding tradition of growing our own talent with the newer tradition of excellence in the study of race and ethnicity. In the end, this initiative will add immeasurably to Stanford's status as one of the leading universities in the nation in the study of race and ethnicity."
All social science and humanities departments were invited to participate in the Faculty Development Initiative. The Department of English was among the first to respond.
"We welcome the opportunity to bring new perspectives and new fields of inquiry into the Stanford community," said Ramón Saldívar, the Hoagland Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, chair of the English Department and professor of comparative literature. "This initiative is imperative if we are to engage creatively and innovatively the most pressing questions in the humanities in the 21st century."
[To read the entire article, go to: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/fdi-010908.html]
The endeavor, known as the Faculty Development Initiative, involves marshaling new university resources and leadership to recruit and hire rising stars in the humanities and social sciences. It directly follows Provost John Etchemendy's commitment last spring to create 10 incremental faculty positions in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), which now consists of more than 100 affiliated faculty members from 15 departments and five schools.
In September, the center, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, began the search to enhance "diversity" at Stanford, meaning both extending the range of fields of study at the university as well as the race, gender and sexual orientation of the faculty. "The tried and true methods of recruiting, hiring and retaining well-qualified and diverse faculty members have not been enough," Etchemendy said. "We must take a new, more vigorous approach to fostering diversity if we are to remain at the forefront of knowledge, creativity and public service."
The initiative leverages a gift of $2.5 million, matched by another $2 million in a grant from the Hewlett Foundation to the School of Humanities and Sciences. Through a variety of search strategies that will identify outstanding prospects—from advanced graduate students finishing their doctoral dissertations to assistant and newly tenured associate professors—Stanford is seeking the most promising talent in academia for appointment.
Al Camarillo, professor of history and the Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service, is leading the initiative. While acknowledging that the initiative is unprecedented in many ways, he noted that it also continues a Stanford tradition.
"When I was hired by Stanford at age 26, I was struck by the fact that so many of my colleagues in the History Department and elsewhere across the university had begun their careers at Stanford and had stayed for 10, 20, 30 or more years," Camarillo said. "It was made clear to me early on by my senior colleagues that Stanford was a place where you could advance your career, and with the support of abundant university resources make your mark in your field of expertise.
"The CCSRE's Faculty Development Initiative will weave this longstanding tradition of growing our own talent with the newer tradition of excellence in the study of race and ethnicity. In the end, this initiative will add immeasurably to Stanford's status as one of the leading universities in the nation in the study of race and ethnicity."
All social science and humanities departments were invited to participate in the Faculty Development Initiative. The Department of English was among the first to respond.
"We welcome the opportunity to bring new perspectives and new fields of inquiry into the Stanford community," said Ramón Saldívar, the Hoagland Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, chair of the English Department and professor of comparative literature. "This initiative is imperative if we are to engage creatively and innovatively the most pressing questions in the humanities in the 21st century."
[To read the entire article, go to: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/fdi-010908.html]
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