The Minnesota State Office of Equity and Inclusion is partnering with the U of M to offer the Keeping our Faculty of Color and American Indian Faculty Symposium. The Symposium has issued an open call for proposals for workshops (http://idea.umn.edu/keeping-our-faculty/call-proposals) and you are invited to submit a proposal for a workshop on practices to recruit, retain, and advance faculty of color and American Indian faculty. We would love to have good representation from Minnesota State.
Here is the announcement and call for proposals:
The University of Minnesota is pleased to announce the eighth of these Keeping Our Faculty Symposia. We invite you to join us as we gather to engage cross-disciplinary theories, rigorous scholarship, and innovative practices to advance conceptual, empirical, and practical work to recruit, develop, and retain American Indian faculty and faculty of color.
- Submit a proposal online – https://z.umn.edu/KOF_2019_Proposals
- Deadline for Submission of Proposal – November 20, 2018
Solicitation of Symposium Topics
We seek proposals for scholarly papers, panels, workshops, presentations, best practices and posters related to recruiting, retaining, and advancing American Indian faculty and faculty of color in academia. As always we encourage new voices to join our conversation on topics including, but not limited to, the following questions:
- What important lessons have we learned about diversifying faculty?
- How might partnerships within and between educational and community organizations creatively and effectively enhance faculty diversity?
- Proposals should identify the type(s) of institutions to be considered in the presentation and how the presentation will engage the audience.
- How do power relations inside academic settings shape the experiences of American Indian faculty and faculty of color? How might we transform those power relations in ways that facilitate more positive experiences?
- When faculty members are “under fire” for their beliefs, what is the role of other faculty and administrators in both supporting those faculty and responding to the multiple constituencies to which they are responsible?
- In our current sociopolitical environment, what are the factors that are strengthening and eroding academic freedom? What action might be taken to ensure the future viability of this critical academic principle?
- What policies are most effective in advancing faculty diversity? What policies impede institutional ability to advance faculty diversity?
How to Submit
Authors must submit a pdf copy of their proposal (500-750 words, not including references) by November 20, 2018.
Submissions can be for individual proposals (15-20 minutes) or for an entire session (75 minutes) inclusive of time for discussion.
We encourage presentations representing multiple institutions and/or disciplines. The number of presentation sessions is limited.
View sample submissions from previous years:
- Building a Comprehensive Model of Mentorship at the University of Minnesota
- Faculty Leaders and Discourses of Diversity
For more information please contact Josefina Landrieu, josefina.landrieu@minnstate.edu