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Diversifying Your Faculty — Honest Conversations

Date:    Friday, November 16, 2007, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
Where: San Diego

This workshop is developed by the Academic Relations Committee and the Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession.

 

The workshop will cover issues of recruiting majors, recruiting and retaining faculty of color, and realities facing faculty of color. Breakout session topics include helping pretenured faculty; thinking through institutional citizenship and mentoring; and issues from the AAR Career Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession, upon which the workshop is based. Miguel A. De La Torre, Associate Professor at Iliff School of Theology and editor of the Career Guide, will lead the workshop. The Guide is available online and will be distributed to participants in book form.

Leader:

  • Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology

Panelists: Breakout Session Leaders:

  • Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Brite Divinity School
  • Akintunde Akinade, High Point University
  • Sharon Watson Fluker, Fund for Theological Education
  • Edwin Aponte, Lancaster Theological Seminary
  • Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary
  • Fumitaka Matsuoka, Pacific School of Religion

Preliminary Agenda:

Legal issues, conflicts, and life cycles will be addressed for individual, department, and administration concerns.

9:00 AM      Welcome – Miguel A. De La Torre
     
9:15 AM   Recruitment of Majors – Sharon Watson Fluker
     
10:00 AM   Reality of Faculty of Color - Stacey Floyd-Thomas
     
10:45 AM   Break
     
11:00 AM   Recruitment of Faculty of Color – Edwin Aponte
     
11:45 AM   Lunch
     
12:30 PM   Retention of Faculty of Color – Fumitaka Matsuoka
     
1:15 PM  

Break-out sessions:

  • Helping pre-tenured faculty – Edwin Aponte
  • Think through institutional citizenship & mentoring – Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Akintunde Akinade
  • AAR Career Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession – Miguel A. De La Torre
     
2:00 PM   Break
     
2:15 PM   Panel discussion with four major speakers

Colleagues in your institution, such as chairs, faculty being developed to assume leadership responsibilities, deans, and other faculty may be interested in attending this workshop. Chairs may want to bring a team of faculty or send a designated faculty person.

Registration includes the entire day of sessions, lunch, and a copy of the Career Guide.

 

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