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Diversity
Police killings and Black mental health
Police killings and Black mental health
Specialists from across the Penn community discuss the mental health impacts of Black people being subjected to videos of African Americans being killed by the police.
‘FACES’ captures, not defines, Black identity on campus
‘FACES’ captures, not defines, Black identity on campus
Sophomore Hadja Diallo and Senior Christine Olagun-Samuel published the inaugural issue of Faces of Black Penn on behalf of the Black Student League, a new magazine that features the diversity inherent in the Black campus experience.
Mentoring circles support a journey through STEM
Mentoring circles support a journey through STEM
An initiative of the Biomedical Postdoctoral Council Diversity Committee has established an informal network of “mentoring circles” for postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates in STEM, with a particular emphasis on including participants from underrepresented backgrounds.
Twenty years of excellence
Twenty years of excellence
The Center for Hispanic Excellence: La Casa Latina marks two decades serving Penn’s Latinx community.
Libraries launch Diversity in the Stacks initiative
Libraries launch Diversity in the Stacks initiative
The Libraries has launched a new initiative to enhance collections that represent and reflect the University’s diverse population, and to highlight those works in a series of blog posts, starting with Afrofuturism.
An intentional approach to supplier diversity
An intentional approach to supplier diversity
Penn has taken great strides to enhance its inclusive community, and has promised to strengthen existing diverse and local partnerships while creating new ones. Last week’s Supplier Diversity Forum and Expo celebrated it all.
Western bias in human genetic studies is ‘both scientifically damaging and unfair’
Western bias in human genetic studies is ‘both scientifically damaging and unfair’
In a commentary in the journal Cell, PIK Professor Sarah Tishkoff and Giorgio Sirugo shine a light on the lack of ethnic diversity represented in genomic studies, and the consequences for health and medicine.
Wharton scholar talks workplace diversity
Wharton scholar talks workplace diversity
Stephanie Creary of the Department of Management studies diversity, identity, and organizational practices.
Celebrating MLK
Celebrating MLK
The annual Commemorative Symposium on Social Change features events to commemorate and honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Podcast series charts a path for Latin Americans in science
Podcast series charts a path for Latin Americans in science
Concerned about the scarcity of Latin Americans in scientific careers, doctoral students Kevin Alicea-Torres and Enrique Lin-Shiao took action to prime the pump. On their Spanish-language podcast, “Caminos en Ciencia,” they chat with Latinx scientists who discuss their career paths and provide advice for young scientists-to-be.
In the News
WHYY (Philadelphia)
‘We all have a lot more to do’: Del. business leaders get crash course on reducing racial disparities in the workforce
Stephanie Creary of the Wharton School spoke to the Delaware Chamber of Commerce about addressing race and diversity in the workplace. “The more that we actually pretend that race isn’t a factor or that we don’t have different races, what the studies have shown is that we actually tend to engage in more biased behavior,” she said.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
How Serious Are You About Diversity Hiring?
The Graduate School of Education’s Marybeth Gasman discussed the disconnect between universities’ messaging on diversity and the realities of their hiring practices and treatment of faculty of color.
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Times Higher Education U.K.
U.S. Student Enrolment Growth to ‘Decline Over Next Decade’
College enrollment is set to decline, but will see a simultaneous increase in racial diversity, according to Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education. Gasman suggested that most universities are ill-prepared for the shift and will need to diversify faculty to better accommodate future students.
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Christian Science Monitor
Ivy Degree – Now What? Low-Income Grads Struggle with Careers, Status
Low-income first-generation college students met at Penn in February for the fourth annual 1vyG conference, where President Amy Gutmann welcomed the scholars.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
Study Reports Wide Gender Disparity Among MSI Presidents
The Graduate School of Education’s Marybeth Gasman commented on the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions’ new report, which advocates for more diversity in higher-education leadership.
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NBC News
Why Job Referrals Can Hurt a Company’s Diversity
Stephanie Creary of the Wharton School encourages diversity in the workplace and says, “Without diversity, you don’t get that same level of information, so you're going to operate in the same ways you’ve always done. And in this era of competition, how we've been doing it is not necessarily enough to get to the next level.”
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