Faculty Diversity Collaborative

Join the Faculty Diversity Collaborative's Cohort Programs by August 31. Apply today!

Our Approach

We are building a community of practice with individualized and targeted supports along the faculty life cycle to increase diverse faculty/future faculty engagement, ensure effective mentoring, expand networking opportunities and develop leadership skills to foster a sense of belonging and professional growth in the academy for all.

Advance

Advance refers to equipping individuals with the resources and tools to build knowledge/skills through core workshops and venues for professional development that lead to career advancement and gratification.

Engage

Engage refers to cultivating an inclusive community that celebrates and nurtures scholars intellectually and professionally as well as socially, connecting individuals to a robust peer network that is institutionally sustained.

Mentor

Mentor refers to building a culture of mentoring and inclusion that recognizes a myriad of resources and individuals are necessary to help current and future faculty achieve their professional, academic, and/or personal development goals.

 

Promoting institutional transformation through sustainable attention to the full spectrum of needs to build, retain, and advance a diverse faculty.

 

Develop and Grow in Community

We have reimagined central support for faculty diversity providing resources for sustained and coordinated mentoring as well as new investments to advance racial and gender equity. Explore the cohort based programs below to learn more and stay tuned for announcements of new initiatives.

• Rutgers Connection Network Mentoring Program
• Program for Early Career Excellence (PECE)
• Oasis Leadership & Professional Development Program

Inclusive Mentorship Matters

We all have our own identities in a variety of domains: race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and so on. These identities not only shape who we are but the experiences we've had–good and bad–as a result. Inclusive mentoring is about acknowledging and respecting the differences that may exist within a mentoring partnership. But it is also about using these differences as a catalyst to become more informed, respectful, and open when it comes to identities that are different from your own.

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Faculty Diversity Collaborative

Campus-based Support

Connect with leaders and resources on each campus to build sustaining community.

• Rutgers-New Brunswick: Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement
• Rutgers-Newark: P3 Collaboratory
• Rutgers-Camden: Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity
• Rutgers-Biomedical Health Sciences: Diversity Leadership Council

Rich Intellectual Life

Explore affiliated programs, research centers, and funded initiatives that advance diversity in the academy.

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INSPIRE - An NIH-IRACDA Grant Program

The INSPIRE program serves to fulfill two important goals: prepare diverse university-trained Ph.D. scholars for successful careers as scientist-educators while increasing the participation of diverse student populations in biomedical science research fields. 

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Institute for Global Racial Justice

The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice is a conduit for new knowledge and ideas, providing opportunities for Rutgers faculty whose inquiries address racism and social inequality to work collaboratively and effect meaningful action and positive change.

Advancing Diversity & Inclusion Research

Philanthropy for Social and Racial Justice: Private Foundation Perspectives on Mobilizing Research and Scholarship Toward an Equitable Future

At this moment of reckoning with the history of racism and ongoing systems of discrimination, Rutgers, as the State University of New Jersey, has a special obligation to lead our collective response and to foster pioneering academic research that moves our entire society toward understanding and redress.

Hacking the University: Reckoning with Racial Equity, Climate Justice, & Global Warming

How can we hack ‘business as usual’ for our campuses and communities to face our current crises better and together?

Diversity and Inclusion Research Directory

The Diversity and Inclusion Research Directory provides information on the research from the 2016 Diversity and Inclusion Symposium titled, Rutgers Scholarship on Diversity & Inclusion: Present Findings & Future Considerations,  it also includes links to research papers and PowerPoint presentations submitted by faculty and graduate students. 

Meet the Leadership

These leaders are guiding the work of the Faculty Diversity Collaborative to realize the vision of a more diverse and inclusive Rutgers community.

Enobong (Anna) Branch

Senior Vice President for Equity

Sangeeta Lamba, MD, MS-HPEd

Vice President for Faculty Development and
Diversity, RBHS Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion

Corinne Castro, PhD

Senior Director for Faculty Diversity and Institutional Transformation

Meet the team

University Committee on Diversity, Race and Gender

This universitywide committee formed in July 2019 is a partnership between the university administration and the union to recommend initiatives pertaining to diversity, including diversity training, recruitment, retention, mentoring, and professional development.

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Envisioning Change

Making Equity and Inclusion Normative

Why the Academy is in Need of Transformation

Building Inclusive Community