Michigan State University
PAE-9: Support Programs for Future Faculty

MSU offers a vareity of programs that help increase the diversity of higher education faculty. Among them are: 1. CAFFE (Center for Academic and Future Faculty Excellence), an NSF-Funded Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) challenges institutions to think strategically about the creative integration of NSF-funded awards, with emphasis on awards in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). (URL: http://grad.msu.edu/caffe/) 2. The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) at Michigan State University (MSU) is a National Science Foundation program that supports recruitment, retention, and graduation of U. S. students in doctoral programs of the natural and social sciences, mathematics, and engineering. The focus of AGEP places special emphasis on a fully inclusive recruitment and development of students from U. S. population groups historically underrepresented in fields of the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); and the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences. URL: http://grad.msu.edu/agep/). 3. n the Fall of 2008, Michigan State University was awarded a $3.98 million Institutional Transformation grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Program (Kim Wilcox, Provost and Principal Investigator). The resulting initiative, Advancing Diversity through the Alignment of Policies and Practices (ADAPP), is providing support for MSU colleges in a sweeping effort to align our values of diversity and quality with academic human resource policies and practices at the department- (or unit-) level. We recognize that departments are critical sites in which recruiting, evaluation, and promotion decisions are initiated--and where climate is most directly experienced by MSU faculty members. Through the first two years of the ADAPP initiative, research and development activities have been focused on the College of Engineering, the College of Social Science and the College of Natural Science. However, Provost Wilcox chose to use the ADVANCE grant as a catalyst for change across the University. Beginning in Fall 2010, the initiative was expanded to thirteen additional colleges: the Broad College of Business; Residential College of Arts and Humanities; James Madison College; Lyman Briggs College, the Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Arts and Letters; Communication Arts and Sciences; Human Medicine; Education; Music; Nursing; Osteopathic Medicine; and Veterinary Medicine.