Resources
This website contains information about work completed 7/31/2024 to meet the goals of National Science Foundation grant HRD – 2017210.
Existing ECU Policies, Practices, and Resources
National Resources and Best Practices
- Creating a Positive Departmental Climate: Principles for Best Practices (PDF), NSF ADVANCE at the University of Michigan, 2007.
- Enhancing Department Climate, A Guide for Department Chairs (PDF), Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 2019.
- 10 Small Steps for Department Chairs to Foster Inclusion
- Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman, Searching for Excellence and Diversity: A Guide for Search. Committee Chairs (PDF), Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, 2012.
Gender and Structural Biases
- The Male Privilege checklist (PDF), An Unabashed Imitation of an Article by Peggy McIntosh, 2019
- College Presidents’ Cabinets Still Far From Gender Parity
- Is It a Microaggression?
- Harvard University implicit bias
Toolkits
Resources from Government Agencies and Professional Societies
- National Science Foundation ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM
- NIH Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- NIH Scientific Chief Officer for Workforce Diversity
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, SEA Change
- National Science Foundation ADVANCE Resource Coordination (ARC) Network
- Society for Neuroscience
- Sexual harassment
- NIH launched an anti-sexual harassment website
Scholarly Articles and Books
- Chambers, C. R. (2011). Candid reflections on the departure of Black women faculty from academe. Negro Educational Review, 62-63(1-4), 233-260.
- Chambers, C. R. & Freeman, Jr., S. (2020). To be young, gifted, and Black: The relationship between age and race in earning full professorships. The Review of Higher Education.
- Freeman, Jr., S. & Chambers, C. R. (in press). Recommendations for full professorship pathways: Understandings from the lived experiences of Black faculty who rose to the rank of full before age 45. Journal of Negro Education.
- Myers, Kristen; Courtney Gallaher; and Shannon McCarragher. 2019. “STEMinism.” Journal of Gender Studies 28 (6): 648–660.
- Roper, Rachel L. (2019). Does Gender Bias Still Affect Women in Science? Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, volume 83, issue 3.
- Does Diversity training work?
- Our nationwide network of Biomedical Engineering women faculty collectively argue that racial funding disparity by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) remains the most insidious barrier to success of Black faculty in our profession. We thus refocus attention on this critical barrier and suggest solutions on how it can be dismantled.