Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs
Building Our Own Pipeline to the Professoriate: Advancing Faculty Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Schools at the University of California, Irvine
UC Irvine, 2017-2018
Project Principal Investigator
Douglas M. Haynes, Former Vice Provost of Academic Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office of Inclusive Excellence
Project Abstract
In addition to extending best practices in use at UCI, this project piloted a locally funded Provost Hiring Incentive to recruit former postdoctoral scholars associated with the system-wide University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the campus-level partner Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship programs (CPF). The project supported the transitions of postdoctoral scholars into faculty positions through a concierge strategy that consisted of research support, work-life integration resources, and community connections for retention and advancement through a newly established Society of Inclusive Excellence Fellows. One of the schools comprising the pilot unit served as a comparator unit during year one of the Advancing Faculty Diversity program.