Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 58.99
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 27, 2015
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Carnegie Mellon University
PA-7: Support for Future Faculty Diversity

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Suzanne Laurich-McIntyre
Assistant Vice Provost For Graduate Educ
Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Education
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Does the institution administer and/or participate in a program or programs to help build a diverse faculty that meet the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s programs that help increase the diversity of higher education faculty:

Carnegie Mellon University provides mentoring and programmatic activities for underrepresented groups to pursue graduate degrees through a range of avenues in preparation for the professoriate. Students are mentored to participate in the Future Faculty Program through the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation and also programs directed at developing future faculty through the Office of the Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Education. Financial and mentoring support are also provided for student groups such as the Society for Women Engineers, Women @ School of Computer Science (Women@SCS), Women in Science, Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering (WinECE), Women @ Information Networking Institute (Women@INI), Women in Tepper, Black Business Association, Black Graduate Student Organization, Latino/a Graduate Student Association, Asian American and Pacific Islander Caucus, Students of Color Dinners- joint with the University of Pittsburgh. These are examples of the student organizations which provide supported programming to encourage underrepresented students at Carnegie Mellon University to consider academic careers as part of their programmatic activities.


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