Diversity: Faculty and other academic personnel
Thriving and UCI: Interventions to Support Leadership, Scholarship and Service Equity for Underrepresented Faculty
UC Irvine, 2023-2024
Project Principal Investigator
- Julia Reinhard Lupton, Interim Director, UC Humanities Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of English
- Dr. Sara Černe, Research Grants Manager, UCHRI
Project Abstract
The UC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship Program (UCHRI) is an intercampus faculty mentoring program run by the UC Humanities Research Institute, housed at UC Irvine and serving the ten UC campuses. The fellowship program pairs junior and mid-career applicants from the humanities and qualitative social sciences with their desired senior mentors from other UC campuses. In addition to providing mentorship training, the program facilitates monthly one-on-one meetings and provides quarterly professionalization workshops based on the needs and preferences of the group. They also bring mentors and mentees from all cohorts together for an annual in-person event in order to cultivate a community of mentoring practitioners throughout the system. With AFD funding UCHRI seeks to double the size of the program while also providing systematic evaluation and programmatic oversight as well as additional professional development opportunities for all participants.