Faculty Retention and Inclusive Excellence Networks—Designing Solutions (FRIENDS)

UC Davis, 2019-2020

Project Principal Investigators

Raquel Aldana, Professor, Law

Lorena Oropeza, Professor, History

Project Abstract

This project invites associate professors to participate in facilitated design thinking sessions focused on removing barriers for marginalized faculty to thrive. The project has three parts: sharing learning from stories behind data-driven insights on faculty experiences; developing communities of future faculty leaders interested in issues of faculty equity, retention, and climate; and designing innovative interventions to tackle known issues. The focus on associate professors is informed by UC Davis’s understanding, through participation in the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, that associate professors require climate interventions to improve their experience at UC Davis and that they are best placed to inform the ways that the campus can do better to address their concerns.

Project Link: 

https://diversity.ucdavis.edu/friends

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