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.
Faculty Diversity Collaborative
Our Approach
We are committed to the institutional pursuit of academic excellence by. Guiding the institutional investment in the retention and success of a diverse faculty. Learn how the Advance, Engage, and Mentor (AEM) framework guides our efforts.
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, explore the programs and resources available now.
Cohort-Based Program
The I-LEAD program is designed to nurture the next generation of diverse leaders by supporting a cohort of leaders across all career stages through workshops, coaching, and mentoring to combat isolation, build community, and manage the unique challenges that diverse faculty face.
Affinity Networks
Faculty Affinity Networks are faculty-led spaces for connection, support, career development, and advancement around unique and similar identity-based experiences.
Grant Program
The Mutual Mentoring program supports faculty at any career stage in developing robust mentorship networks, within and outside of Rutgers University, to combat isolation and ensure all faculty have the resources they need to thrive.
Workshop Series
The PECE Workshop Series is designed to support Rutgers’ mission to retain and advance a diverse faculty through professional advancement workshops that enable scholars to develop their scholarly work and identity and build connections within the Rutgers Community.
Cohort-Based Program
The OASIS Leadership and Professional Development program is designed to promote inclusive community, combat isolation and mitigate against bias, helping faculty develop the skills necessary to lead and advance in academia, with special attention to the unique challenges women faculty face as they navigate higher ranks and leadership in academia.
Cohort-Based Program
The RCN is designed to advance a culture of mentoring and inclusion at Rutgers and increase the engagement and scholarly productivity of Rutgers faculty by providing the infrastructure, training, and facilitation to enable effective and collaborative mentoring partnerships beyond the departmental level.
Cohort-Based Program
The ECARE program is designed to promote inclusive community, combat isolation, and mitigate against bias that can negatively shape the experiences of early career faculty who are underrepresented in academia and/or whose research focus is on racial equity and disparities.
Workshop Series
The Rutgers Women in Leadership Workshop Series offers skill-building workshops for advancement in academia, paying attention to the unique challenges women faculty may face on their leadership journey. Faculty develop skills, confidence, and strategies to expand networks to reduce isolation, build community, and increase access to leadership opportunities. All faculty are welcome.
Workshop Series
These skill-building workshops provide strategies to help mentors create psychologically safe environments and help mitigate the potential impact that bias might have in a mentoring relationship.
Faculty Testimonials
Faculty Diversity Collaborative Testimonial Compilation
FDC Peer Network
Building an inclusive academy requires developing and sustaining community intentionally. The Faculty Diversity Collaborative (FDC) Peer Network is a mechanism to promote connection and offer means for engagement for Rutgers University faculty across Chancellor-led units. Use it to identify and create communities of connection.
2024-25 Faculty Diversity Collaborative Mailer
Discover career stage-specific support, opportunities to grow in community, and the many ways you can get involved as a faculty member at Rutgers!
Upcoming Faculty Events
Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Douglass Library, 8 Chapel Drive New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States
Friday, March 07, 2025, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Virtual Event
The Faculty Diversity Collaborative is nationally recognized as an innovative strategy to support faculty.
Review the National Science Foundation July 2022 Winners Showcase and Honorable Mentions
Meet the Leadership
These leaders are guiding the work of the Faculty Diversity Collaborative to realize the vision of an inclusive Rutgers community where all faculty thrive.
Senior Vice President for Equity
Vice President for Faculty Development and
Diversity, RBHS Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion
Senior Director for Faculty Diversity and Institutional Transformation
Campus-based, Faculty-led Change
New Brunswick: Crystal Bedley
Newark: Ashaki Rouff
Associate Director of the P3 Collaboratory and Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, SASN
Camden: Kwangwon Lee
Director & Founder of the Rutgers–Camden MARC program, Director of the Undergraduate Biology program, and Associate Professor in the Department of Biology
Why the Academy is in Need of Transformation
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