Rethinking Retention, Redefining (Faculty) ‘Diversity’: UCR/UC Administrators and Faculty Respond to Imagining America’s Critical Intersections Report
 

PLEASE JOIN THE CENTER FOR IDEAS AND SOCIETY FOR THIS VITAL CONVERSATION…

The UCR/Center for Ideas and Society Dreaming Retention Think Tank invites all UCR colleagues to attend this roundtable discussion with UCOP and UCR administrators, UCR faculty members, and Dr. Kal Alston, National Advisory Board member of Imagining America: Artists + Scholars in Public Life.
 

“Rethinking Retention, Redefining (Faculty) ‘Diversity’” will focus on the institutional conditions surrounding the (non)retention of underrepresented faculty over recent years, utilizing insights from Imagining America’s multi-year national study of peer institutions that sought to “…better understand and to provide dynamic actionable tools to shift institutional culture in higher education to more fully support public and activist scholarship in the arts, design, and humanities.”
 

Roundtable participants will include:

Yvette Gullatt, UC Vice President and Vice Provost
Douglas Haynes, UC Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Programs
Dan Jeske, UCR Vice-Provost of Academic Personnel
Anthea Kraut, Department of Dance, Chair
Mariam Lam, Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer
Vorris Nunley, Department of Black Study, Chair
Victoria Reyes, Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies
Annika Speer, Theatre, Film & Digital Production
Sherryl Vint, Department of English, Chair
Melissa Wilcox, Department of Religious Studies, Chair
 

Register: https://bit.ly/Rethinking_Retention