Faculty of California United in Scholarship–FOCUS

UC Davis, 2022-2023

Project Principal Investigator

Lorena Oropeza, Professor of History

Project Abstract

FOCUS (Faculty of California United in Scholarship) advances two central goals of the UC mission–producing knowledge and advancing diversity–by supporting the academic career success of UC faculty, especially from historically-marginalized groups, through a targeted intervention: providing two-day research grant development and publication workshops, two per year over the course of the next three years, to faculty members across many disciplines and several campuses. Project PIs believe that providing expert research support to complete publications and submit grants is the best way to help faculty flourish at an R1 university. The writing workshops create the necessary spaces to reinforce the development of collegial professional relationships around a shared commitment to producing “R1 scholarship” and a commitment to the UC’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. The research and publication success and satisfaction of newly appointed faculty, as well as faculty already on campus, must become a central concern of the university if we are to retain URM faculty and build a reliable pipeline for full professors. 

Project Link: 

https://diversity.ucdavis.edu/focus

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