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Reminder to Register for the PDW "Increasing Retention of Minority Students and Faculty in Management"

  • 1.  Reminder to Register for the PDW "Increasing Retention of Minority Students and Faculty in Management"

    Posted 07-21-2014 11:02
    Dear GDO Division Members,

    Please join us during AOM for an exciting PDW focused on:

    "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.


    Panelists:

    Dr. dt ogilvie, Dr. Mark Suazo, Dr. Anthony Hood, Stephanie Black


    Roundtable Moderators:

    Dr. Diana Hechavarria, Dr. Tina Opie, Dr. Shalei Simms, Dr. J. Goosby Smith, Isaac Addae, Claudia Gonzalez, Reginald Harris, Monique Okumakpeyi

    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

    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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    Nicole C. Jones Young
    Doctoral Candidate / Instructor – Management Department
    University of Connecticut
    School of Business
    2100 Hillside Road, Unit 1041
    Storrs, CT 06269-1041