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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is one of four consortium members that is also a Sloan University Center for Exemplary Mentoring. Learn here about the impacts of participating in EGE as shared by campus liaison Dr. Lisa Abston, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. What has been one of the most important benefits of participating […]

Stephanie Santos, MBA is Project Coordinator for the Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center. Centered at Rochester Institute for Technology, she leads operations for the IGEN Inclusive Practices Hub and supports two of the three tracks in the Equity in Graduate Education Consortium. Stephanie is a gifted administrator, whom we are incredibly fortunate to work

In 2018, USC Associate Professor Julie Posselt saw a pressing need for a scalable, sustainable system for faculty to learn about basic issues of inequality and justice in graduate education. Posselt believed this type of system was necessary for advancing racial equity and diversity, and could serve as a catalyst for systemic and cultural change in doctoral education. Soon, the California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) was developed.

One focus of the successful California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) pilot has been equipping faculty with resources to manage political, motivational, and time costs associated with changing admissions. The project organizes change-ready faculty into a community of practice; provides research, training, and tools in equity-minded holistic review; and facilitates structured discussions that can be delicate for departments to have on their own.

“Creating conditions to support access and inclusion is not a one-time event, but an ongoing struggle,” as quoted by Julie Posselt in this feature story about the University of Michigan’s applied physics graduate program.

Interview with Dr. Casey W. Miller, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs and Professor in the College of Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and PI of the NSF INCLUDES Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) Alliance. In this episode of the NSF includes Coordination Hub’s Collaborative Strategies for Inclusive Change podcast, Casey Miller participates in a discussion about holistic review trainings, and faculty diversity, inclusion, and retention strategies.

Equity, well-being and learning all compel a re-examination of qualifying exams and the transition to Ph.D. candidacy, write Julie Posselt, Román Liera, Aireale J. Rodgers and Lauren N. Irwin.