Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series: Mission-Driven & Equity-Centered Approaches to Graduate Admissions

Overview

In June 2023, the United States Supreme Court delivered pivotal rulings on affirmative motion, reshaping the terrain for admissions insurance policies and practices in all establishments of upper schooling, together with graduate schooling. As schools and universities grapple with this shifting authorized panorama, there is a urgent want to discover progressive approaches to choice processes and practices that uphold range, fairness, accessibility, and inclusion ideas to enable graduate establishments to profit from the nation’s full vary of expertise and foster creativity and innovation in science.

During this webinar, consultants in graduate schooling and systemic-change administration will talk about evidence-based practices and case research of profitable holistic admissions applications. The webinar will present college, admission officers, and different increased schooling professionals with a roadmap for implementing mission-driven systemic change in graduate admissions.

This webinar is carefully associated to a webinar the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) hosted in 2023, “Creating Equitable and Inclusive Graduate Programs: From Recruitment to Admission to Retention.”

About the Speakers

Sara Xayarath Hernández
Associate Dean for Inclusion and Student & Faculty Engagement
Graduate School at Cornell University

As the affiliate dean for Inclusion and Student & Faculty Engagement for the Graduate School at Cornell University, Hernández serves as a member of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education’s senior management workforce offering imaginative and prescient and strategic administration for Graduate School initiatives and insurance policies associated to entry, range, inclusion, fairness, and systemic change in graduate admissions and mentoring. In collaboration with companions throughout the Graduate School and the Provost Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, Hernández co-leads the Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring Resource Center supporting college of their improvement as mentors and graduate college students of their mentoring experiences.

Hernández is the principal investigator for a Sloan Foundation-funded grant centered on bettering equity-based holistic admissions and mentoring practices for graduate college students throughout the Sloan University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring and Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership communities. She can be a steering committee and management workforce member for the nationwide Equity in Graduate Education Consortium. Additionally, Hernández serves on steering and advisory committees for the Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network, Council of Graduate Schools, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration.

Hernández identifies as Chicana and Mestiza and is the kid of first and second-generation immigrants. She grew up in a rural, Midwestern farming neighborhood the place alongside her mom, she engaged in social fairness work with migrant farmworker communities from an early age. She is a first-generation faculty graduate holding a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Master of Regional Planning from Cornell University. Navigating life in partnership together with her husband and maintaining with their younger daughter convey her nice pleasure and preserve her grounded.

Denzil A. Streete, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Dr. Streete serves because the senior affiliate dean and director of Graduate Education on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the place he leads the workforce accountable for the wellbeing of the Institute’s 7,000+ graduate college students. He beforehand served because the assistant vice provost for Graduate Studies and Chief of Staff on the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley and as assistant dean for Graduate Student Development and Diversity at Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Driven by his personal Ph.D. expertise, Dr. Streete has devoted his profession to reworking graduate schooling, specializing in the recruitment and retention of minoritized college students and increasing their post-graduate profession alternatives.

In addition to talking at campuses and nationwide conferences, Dr. Streete employs web-based approaches to scholar recruitment. Notably, he initiated the “Pipeline to the Ph.D. Bootcamp” in 2018 and different disciplinary bootcamps, which have supplied over 5,000 underrepresented college students nationwide with instruments and information for making use of to aggressive doctoral applications. He additionally facilitates workshops for college and employees with particular person graduate applications to improve their recruitment methods and departmental climates.

Born in Morvant, Trinidad and Tobago, Denzil moved to the United States for his faculty schooling. He graduated with honors from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Economics. Later, he obtained his doctorate from Columbia University’s Teachers College, specializing in Comparative and International Education with a concentrate on the Economics of Education.

About the moderator

Brittany Haynes, Ph.D.
Program Director of Workforce Diversity and Equity
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity 

Dr. Haynes is this system director of Workforce Diversity and Equity within the Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity at NIMH. In this function, Dr. Haynes coordinates and promotes a analysis grant portfolio centered on attaining workforce range and fairness in any respect scientific profession ranges, from undergraduate college students to college, within the psychological well being house.

Previously, Dr. Haynes was a scientific program specialist within the Education Branch of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences’ (NCATS) Office of Policy, Communications, and Education. At NCATS, she labored to broaden the translational science workforce by evaluating translational science coaching applications and growing translational science curriculums. Dr. Haynes obtained her doctorate in Cancer Biology from Wayne State University and accomplished her postdoctoral fellowship on the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Haynes was additionally an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Science and Technology Policy Fellow within the NCATS Division of Preclinical Innovation intramural coaching workplace.

About the Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series

The Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series is designed for investigators conducting or enthusiastic about conducting analysis on psychological well being disparities, girls’s psychological well being, minority psychological well being, and rural psychological well being.

Registration

This webinar is free, however registration is required .