steps to successful building and diversity: the 1st thing is to care
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Department of BiostatisticsDavid B. Allison, Ph.D.
Recruitment actively underway for
•post-doctoral fellows
•research track faculty
•tenure track faculty
Steps to successful building and diversity: the 1st thing is to care
CaveatsThe opinions I will offer are my own and do not necessarily represent those of any organization with which I am affiliated.
My opinions are the result of an unspecifiable mix of hard evidence, expert teachings, anecdotal experiences, and general training as a statistician and psychologist.
From Inauguration (2001) to PresentOur Success and Room for Growth
What Does Diversity Mean?
• A commitment to diversity includes, but means more than, promoting those ethnic groups that the government has traditionally recognized as meriting extra efforts toward promotion in science and education.
The First Step is to Care
• Think about something else you care about.
• Your scientific research?
• How about your children?
• After that it becomes fairly obvious.
Have a Plan
• Disavowing Discrimination & Adding the “Minorities Encouraged to Apply” to Job Adverts Is Not enough.
• Would you run your scientific program that way?
Publically and Regularly Affirm Your Values: Talk the Talk
Truth Honor Courage Camaraderie Benevolence Beauty
Leadership
• If everyone is in charge, no one is in charge.
• Get people involved who really “feel it.”
• Get people for whom this is self-serving in the best sense of the word.
Leadership - II
Have a complementary ‘alter ego’.
Jose Fernandez, Ph.D.
Recruiting – Initial Contact
Web Presence – A chance to show your face, literally and figuratively.
Print ads
Mass Mailings
Recruiting at Conferences
Mass Emailing
Personal Emailing
Incidental Exposure – Your first chance to walk the walk.
Word of Mouth – Where your reputation walks the walk (or doesn’t).
Recruitment: Selection as an Optimization Problem and the Spirit of
the Supreme Court Decision
TokenismBlindness
The ‘Trickle-Up Theory’
Everyone in the organization is part of the family.
Another chance to walk the walk.
What Happens After Recruitment?What Happens After Recruitment?Respecting differences vs Stereotyping - All Respecting differences vs Stereotyping - All
Distributions are OverlappingDistributions are Overlapping
The cultivation of diversity.By Anastasi, AnneAmerican Psychologist, Vol 27(12), Dec 1972, 1091-1099.
Celebrate Diversity(SMA and Self-Driven Evolution)
Show Your Values: A Picture is Worth a
Thousand Words, but
whose picture?
Show Your Values At Every Step: Walk the Walk
UAB’s ‘Student’ Professorship
Promoting Diversity Earlier: The Pipeline Problem & the Zero-Sum Game
Our Beginning Attempts To Seed the Pipeline Grew out of PAESMEM Connections
Percent of Scientists that are Women by Career Stage
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Handelsman, J. et al. Science, Vol 309, Issue 5738, 1190-1191 , 19 August 2005
Recognize that diversity is an issue beyond the entry level
Bootstrapping the Role Model Problem.
Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Women in the Statistical Sciences
• History/Development
• Another chance to show your values.
Thank You