Questions tagged [diversity]
On the diversity of academic disciplines, institutions, or events, including ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, geographical, or other kinds of diversity. Includes questions about diversity statements, increasing diversity of participants in an event, lack of diversity, and others.
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Do European funding agencies consider socioeconomic background in their diversity initiatives?
I've noticed that many European funding agencies proudly highlight gender parity in their grant results, which is important. However, I haven't seen similar attention given to socioeconomic background,...
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Why is gender diversity promoted in the sciences to "denounce the lack of women" in these fields, but not in others, regardless of gender? [closed]
I hope this question is suitable for this network, and that it will be read with an open mind.
My university does a lot to promote gender diversity in science researchers and students, and it's not ...
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Why do people dislike the resources I've used in the past to get into master's and Ph.D. programs?
I'm an autistic Ph.D student (US, 4.5 years in) who's been active on a fair amount of forums and have received a fair number of negative comments in the past month regarding my academic experience. ...
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Should an academic with autism and adhd disclose that to a potential employer
In the context of applying for an assistant professor position, should an academic with autism and adhd disclose that to the university during the hiring process? If so, and the application package ...
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What is the consequence on purposefully lying on grad-school application (town of birth)
Sam was really really uncomfortable in disclosing their actual biographic data such as the town of birth (similar to Gaza). Sam felt that they will be discriminated.
There was no option to "...
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Is it problematic to control for ethnoracial identity in analyses?
I am writing a paper and have been asked by all co-authors to control for race and ethnicity in the analyses. I’ve heard mixed reviews on this once staple practice in the field.
Does anyone have ...
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Norms around who contributes to the diversity section in grant proposals?
So we're writing a big grant proposal with about 10 PIs. My supervisor is the lead PI. In our small group meeting going through the proposal, once we got to the diversity section my PI suggested that ...
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Should someone with severe mental illness discuss that in their Diversity statement?
For faculty candidates with history of severe mental illness, would a Diversity statement be an appropriate place to raise those issues? Could such a candidate bring a unique background that could be ...
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How do universities validate race declarations?
In the US, competition for admission to elite universities (whether for an PhD, MA, BA, or even for a position as a professor) is fierce. Race is a more or less official consideration in admissions.
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Does diversity theory ever consider personality or other social groupings? [closed]
Has anyone critiqued modern diversity theory in that it arbitrarily selects some categories over others? For example, why shouldn’t a diversity ranking take personality into account?
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Examples of successful push-backs against DEI (diversity, etc.) initiatives in academia?
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives became an almost overnight transformational success in academia beginning one or two years ago (in the US and several other countries such as Canada ...
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Are first-generation college students considered an "underrepresented group" in academia?
Neither of my parents went to college. Is this something that can be brought up in the context of university diversity hiring and outreach?
This is for academic jobs - postdoc, tenure-track, etc.
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Should I include challenges I faced on account of my caste in my diversity statement?
Some of the graduate programs in US schools require you to submit a diversity statement as a part of the application. I have looked at some resources on writing it, like these ones.
I happen to be ...
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Where to advertise a postdoctoral position to widen the diversity of applicants?
I am planning to hire a postdoc (in mathematics), and have never done this before. My department is far from diverse. I have read that a good way to achieve a diverse pool of candidates is by ...
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If I'm racist/sexist/homophobe etc, can I still be admitted to Cornell University? [closed]
This completely hypothetical question is based on Cornell's founding statement:
"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
-- Ezra Cornell, 1868
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Department policy possibly affecting inclusion and diversity
I am a last year PhD math student in an university in USA-Canada.
The university I work in offers graduate students the option to teach first year calculus courses as a special kind of TA. The ...
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To submit or not to submit GRE Scores for PhD programs in the United States [closed]
With the GREs being phased out of so many PhD applications in the sciences, I think this question is reasonably fresh.
I have taken the GRE and scored in the 70 percentiles for verbal and math. I ...
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Is it standard for US-based universities to consider the ethnicity of an applicant during PhD admissions?
I am considering applying to CS PhD programs at some of the top research universities in the United States.
While I cannot speak for other fields, I know that in my field (artificial intelligence), ...
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Whom is a diversity statement written for?
This is related to the "what to say in a diversity statement" question, but I'm asking something slightly different:
Who reads a Diversity Statement in a faculty application (exact sciences/CS/math) ...
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Diversity Statement for Faculty Position in the US? [duplicate]
I am crafting applications for US faculty positions and Californian universities require diversity statements. Now, the problem is I have no idea what to write in it, since diversity can mean ...
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How can I avoid inadvertently offending my female peers and getting into trouble for it?
Attention has been drawn recently to an incident that occurred at a scientific conference and its sequelae described in this article:
The fuss started when [Prof. X] and [Prof. Y] ended up in the ...
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Graduate school holding a diversity committee meeting. What do I need to do to be effective?
I created an affinity group for first generation students at my graduate school. Shortly after, the school's diversity committee emailed the student government informing us that there would be a ...
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Mentioning LGBTQ Identity in Personal Statement for PhD Applications
I'm currently applying to grad school to do a PhD in physics in the United States. I would really like to mention in the personal history statement/diversity statement essays: 1) the work I did in my ...
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What more should universities do to limit student exposure to dangerous speech? [closed]
It's 2017. Universities should be a safe space for students of all cultures, creeds, gender identities, sexualities, nationalities, economic backgrounds, or other intersectional marginalized ...
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Is it considered normal to publish job offers inviting candidates to apply based on their gender and/or race in academia?
I was browsing PhD position offers in Europe on different websites and I was quite surprised to find that several offers contained sentences such as
University of X value equality and diversity. We ...
