UCR ADVANCING FACULTY DIVERSITY AWARDS
The University of California community values diversity, embraces inclusion, and honors excellence. Teaching, scholarship, research, creativity, innovation, and service flourish when all members of the community are welcomed, supported, and respected. We are committed to removing barriers preventing full expression of our potential and to reflecting the population of California in our faculty, students, and other academic personnel, especially those who have been systematically and historically underrepresented.
The Advancing Faculty Diversity (AFD) program is run by University of California Office of the President (UCOP) and supports the UC diversity ambition by funding UC campus proposals for initiatives aligned with one of two aims: Recruitment, and Retention. Recruitment initiatives develop processes that are predicted to result in more diverse faculty hiring. Retention initiatives develop equity-oriented interventions to improve workplace climate and retention outcomes. Each spring UCOP releases RFPs for each type of proposal. Below are titles and abstracts for the UCR proposals that have been funded since the program began.
Recruitment
- Advancing Faculty Diversity and Epistemologies in Black Study, Health & Environmental Inequities
2021-2022 Academic Year
João Costa Vargas, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Black Studies Initiative - Advancing Faculty Diversity at the UCR School of Business via Recruiting URM faculty
2021-2022 Academic Year
Elaine Wong, Assoc. Professor of Management, co-chair of UCR Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women
Boris Maciejovsky, Assoc. Professor of Management, School of Business Equity Advisor and member of the UCR
Rami Zwick, Assoc. Dean for Graduate Programs, Professor of Marketing - Advancing Faculty Diversity in the Physical Sciences
2019-2020 Academic Year
Ameae M. Walker, Professor of Biomedical Sciences and UCR Vice Provost
Ken Barish, Chair of Physics and Astronomy
Len Mueller, Chair of Chemistry
Read the full award proposal - Advancing Mathematics Faculty Diversity at the University of California, Riverside
2018-2019 Academic Year
Yat Sun Poon, Professor of Mathematics
Read the full award proposal - Advancing Engineering Faculty Diversity at the University of California, Riverside
2016-2017 Academic Year
Sharon Walker, Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering & Associate Dean of Engineering
Cynthia Larive, Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor
Climate and Retention
- Increasing Faculty Retention in CNAS through Mentorship
2021-2022 Academic Year
Patricia Springer, Professor and Chair, Botany and Plant Sciences
Linda Walling, Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences
Loralee Larios, Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences
Samantha Ying, Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences
Peter Homyak, Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences - Mining Text for Bias in Written Comments of Student Evaluations of Teaching
2021-2022 Academic Year
Daniel R. Jeske, UCR Vice Provost
Herbie Lee, UCSC Vice Provost
Philip Kass, UCD Vice Provost - Faculty Commons Project at the Center for Ideas and Society. Intervention
2019-2021 Academic Year
Georgia Warnke, Professor of Political Science & Director of Center for Ideas and Society
Read the full award proposal - Faculty Commons Pilot Program at the Center for Ideas and Society
2018-2019 Academic Year
Georgia Warnke, Professor of Political Science & Director of Center for Ideas and Society - Faculty Commons Project at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society
2022-2023 through 2023-2024 Academic Year
Dylan Rodríguez, Professor, Media and Cultural Studies
Katharine Henshaw, Executive Director, UCR Center for Ideas and Society