"Fixing Leaks in the Pipeline: Increasing Retention of Minority Students and Faculty in Management"
2014 Academy of Management Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, August 2nd, 8-10:30am
Sponsored by the Diversity & Inclusion Committee (D&ITC) and Gender & Diversity in Organizations (GDO), join us during the AOM meeting to discuss and develop action items to improve the retention of minority students and faculty within academia.
Our objectives during this PDW are to:
· Provide a forum for Academy members at various stages to dialogue about barriers to inclusion confronted by minority students and faculty members
· Establish a network of support groups that span various academic stages
· Identify concrete action items aimed at increasing retention and preventing attrition of marginalized members of the Academy
To ensure we consider as many perspectives as possible, please submit any questions and/or comments you have related to this topic to our co-organizer, Ishva Minefee at minefee2@illinois.edu.
Abstract:
African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans represent less than 5% of doctoral students and 6% of full-time faculty, respectively, in management (AACSB, 2013). Despite the increase in the number of universities creating a more welcoming atmosphere for underrepresented minority students and faculty, high doctoral attrition rates and challenges to the retention of faculty persist. The organizers of the proposed PDW seek to provide AOM members with a forum to fix 'leaks,' or barriers to inclusion and retention, in the academic pipeline. In addition to an overview of salient barriers, six AOM members at the doctoral, tenure-track, and tenured academic stages will offer personal accounts of barriers they have confronted. Subsequently, participants in the PDW will collectively identify action plans to overcome each barrier in the Academy. The PDW is targeted towards AOM members who (a) are from under-represented ethnic backgrounds; (b) have considered exiting academia and seek a support network; and/or (c) are generally interested in inclusion initiatives in the Academy. The organizers intend to connect PDW participants prior to, during, and after the AOM meeting to ensure continuous engagement on this topic.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Organizer: Ishva Minefee; U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Organizer: Nicole C. Jones Young; U. of Connecticut
Organizer: Oscar Jerome Stewart; U. of North Carolina, Charlotte
Organizer: Veronica C. Rabelo; U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Organizer: Regina Michelle Taylor; U. of Central Florida
Organizer: Armond Edmund Sinclair; U. of Toledo
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