A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models

Calls to diversify the professoriate have been ongoing for decades. However, despite increasing numbers of scholars from underrepresented racial minority groups earning doctorates, actual progress in transitioning to faculty has been slow, particularly across STEM disciplines. In recent years, new e...

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Autores principales:	Dawn Culpepper, Autumn M. Reed, Blessing Enekwe, Wendy Carter-Veale, William R. LaCourse, Patrice McDermott, Robin H. Cresiski
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	postdoc diversity faculty diversity higher education AGEP Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8f55a31bec34496cb7ba53fa510cfddd2021-11-05T15:30:12ZA New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.733995https://doaj.org/article/8f55a31bec34496cb7ba53fa510cfddd2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733995/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Calls to diversify the professoriate have been ongoing for decades. However, despite increasing numbers of scholars from underrepresented racial minority groups earning doctorates, actual progress in transitioning to faculty has been slow, particularly across STEM disciplines. In recent years, new efforts have emerged to recruit faculty members from underrepresented racial minority groups (i.e., African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and/or Native American/Native Hawaiian/Indigenous) through highly competitive postdoctoral programs that allow fellows the opportunity to transition (or “convert”) into tenure-track roles. These programs hybridize some conventional aspects of the faculty search process (e.g., structured interview processes that facilitate unit buy-in) along with novel evidence-based practices and structural supports (e.g., proactive recruitment, cohort communities, search waivers, professional development, enhanced mentorship, financial incentives). In this policy and practice review, we describe and synthesize key attributes of existing conversion programs at institutional, consortium, and system levels. We discuss commonalities and unique features across models (N = 38) and draw specific insights from postdoctoral conversion models developed within and across institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM). In particular, experience garnered from a 10-year-old postdoc conversion program at UMBC will be highlighted, as well as the development of an additional institutional model aimed at the life sciences, and a state-system model of faculty diversification with support from a NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) grant.Dawn CulpepperAutumn M. ReedBlessing EnekweWendy Carter-VealeWilliam R. LaCoursePatrice McDermottRobin H. CresiskiFrontiers Media S.A.articlepostdocdiversityfaculty diversityhigher educationAGEPPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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spellingShingle	postdoc diversity faculty diversity higher education AGEP Psychology BF1-990 Dawn Culpepper Autumn M. Reed Blessing Enekwe Wendy Carter-Veale William R. LaCourse Patrice McDermott Robin H. Cresiski A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models
description	Calls to diversify the professoriate have been ongoing for decades. However, despite increasing numbers of scholars from underrepresented racial minority groups earning doctorates, actual progress in transitioning to faculty has been slow, particularly across STEM disciplines. In recent years, new efforts have emerged to recruit faculty members from underrepresented racial minority groups (i.e., African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and/or Native American/Native Hawaiian/Indigenous) through highly competitive postdoctoral programs that allow fellows the opportunity to transition (or “convert”) into tenure-track roles. These programs hybridize some conventional aspects of the faculty search process (e.g., structured interview processes that facilitate unit buy-in) along with novel evidence-based practices and structural supports (e.g., proactive recruitment, cohort communities, search waivers, professional development, enhanced mentorship, financial incentives). In this policy and practice review, we describe and synthesize key attributes of existing conversion programs at institutional, consortium, and system levels. We discuss commonalities and unique features across models (N = 38) and draw specific insights from postdoctoral conversion models developed within and across institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM). In particular, experience garnered from a 10-year-old postdoc conversion program at UMBC will be highlighted, as well as the development of an additional institutional model aimed at the life sciences, and a state-system model of faculty diversification with support from a NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) grant.
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author	Dawn Culpepper Autumn M. Reed Blessing Enekwe Wendy Carter-Veale William R. LaCourse Patrice McDermott Robin H. Cresiski
author_facet	Dawn Culpepper Autumn M. Reed Blessing Enekwe Wendy Carter-Veale William R. LaCourse Patrice McDermott Robin H. Cresiski
author_sort	Dawn Culpepper
title	A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models
title_short	A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models
title_full	A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models
title_fullStr	A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models
title_full_unstemmed	A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models
title_sort	new effort to diversify faculty: postdoc-to-tenure track conversion models
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/8f55a31bec34496cb7ba53fa510cfddd
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A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models

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