Diversity: Faculty and other academic personnel
Advancing Faculty Diversity through Faculty Retention and Academic Climate in Engineering and Physics at UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara, 2018-2019
Project Principal Investigators
David Marshall
Project Abstract
The College of Engineering and Department of Physics program will launch a new comprehensive team[1]mentoring program for faculty combined with key inclusion and equity workshops that will improve the skills and awareness of faculty members and departmental leaders with regard to improving climate and retaining underrepresented faculty members and those with other diverse identities. The program will contribute to the development of a new campus-wide Equity Advisors program; establish mentoring teams and peer mentoring as part of a comprehensive junior faculty mentoring program; implement inclusion and equity workshops, which will focus on equitable distribution of “low- and high-promotability tasks” and on male allies and advocates; and address retention and climate issues in the units.