Preconference

Sustaining the Academic Pipeline: Preliminary Findings

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Abstract

In spring 2016, our interdisciplinary team received funding from the Women’s and Diversity Grant Program to facilitate a five-part professional development workshop series. The series entitled, Sustaining the Academic Pipeline for Graduate Students and Faculty of Color: A Workshop Series to Launch the Trajectory from Graduate Student to Administrator debuted in September 2016. This session will share the quantitative and qualitative data collected from the workshop evaluations for workshops 1 – 3: (1) Transitioning from Graduate Student to Faculty Member for Faculty of Color, (2) Promotion & Tenure - Recruitment & Retention of Faculty of Color, and (3) Tools for Faculty of Color to Continue Their Trajectory to Professor. Quantitative data were collected about the student and faculty demographics. Questions evaluating the workshop content and presentation were ranked on 5-point Likert scale. Qualitative data were collected from the following questions: (a) Did the workshop advance your learning?, (b) Will you apply the information you learned in the workshop?, and (c) Please provide any additional comments that will help to plan future workshops. We will engage the audience in a discussion about the impact of workshops 1-3 for graduate students and faculty of color at ISU.