Department Culture Office Hour

During spring 2023 the Chairs of the Diversity & Equity Committee (DEC) and the Chair of the Graduate & Postdoc Program Committee (GPC) held DEC/GPC department culture office hours on alternate Fridays, 11-12:00 p.m. in LSB 302, or via Zoom.

To support antiracism discussions that were occurring throughout our department, including in classrooms, laboratories, and offices, they compiled archives of DEC/GPC department culture office hour topics. The archive for the 2022-2023 year can be viewed below. 

Archive for 2022-2023 academic year

May 26, 2023: Inequality in science and the case for a new agenda

May 12, 2023: Evading Race: STEM Faculty Struggle to Acknowledge Racialized Classroom Events  https://doi.org/10.187/cbe.22-06-0104

April 28, 2023: Kevin Gannon's book, Radical Hope: https://booktimist.com/2020/02/26/the-ends-we-seek-in-higher-education-an-excerpt-from-kevin-gannons-radical-hope/

Apr 14, 2023: Author charts her way back from faculty burnout in new book & How to Measure Burnout Accurately and Ethically

Apr 1, 2023: Stress and uncertainty drag down graduate students’ satisfaction 

Break in Winter Quarter during Job searches

Jan 20, 2023  (LSB 501) The 7-Day Happiness Challenge - The New York Times & https://wellbeing.uw.edu/mental-health/huskykind/ 

Jan 13, 2023: Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention | Nature

• 2022 Waterman Lecture: 'Trends in U.S. faculty hiring and retention from ten years of data: a study of prestige, diversity and inequality' and Video: https://www.nsf.gov/sbe/videos/larremore-2022-waterman-lecture-video.jsp 

Dec. 9, in Memoriam time

Dec. 2, 2022: Chapter 7 from The Guidebook for the Engaged University – Beyond the Academy  at: http://beyondtheacademynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/BTA-Chapter-7.pdf 

Nov. 25, 2022 HOLIDAY

Nov. 18, 2022: STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes | Science Advances 

Nov 4, 2022: Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty (2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01425-4 [nature.com]

Oct 28, 202:  In hiring for junior faculty positions, study finds bias against female candidates who have partners or When Two Bodies Are (Not) a Problem: Gender and Relationship Status Discrimination in Academic Hiring 

Oct. 21, 2022: Paper in Science 2022 Can rubrics combat gender bias in faculty hiring?

Oct. 14, 2022: How introductory courses deter minority students from STEM degrees & Do introductory courses disproportionately drive minoritized students out of STEM pathways? | PNAS Nexus | Oxford Academic  

Oct. 7, 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/nyu-organic-chemistry-petition.html [nytimes.com]