Kathryn (Katie) Stofer, Ph.D.’s Post

Last month, my colleagues at APLU and I officially released the final report on Modernizing Scholarship for the Public Good: An Action Framework for Public Research Universities; you can access the final report here: https://lnkd.in/gH9dhYPW The Modernizing Scholarship initiative offers guidance to public research universities on ways that they can support scholars to advance public impact research and other forms of public engagement, with particular attention to the ways that diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to this work. The report contains several elements:  1) Opportunities for Strategic Action: This section describes the results of a review of the research literature around institutional change. It presents eight major areas for strategic action, as well as accompanying tactics that may be appropriate in a change initiative, depending on the campus context and prevailing cultures (there's also a database for more details on these!). 2) Illustrating Strategy and Process: This section contains detailed case studies of public research university initiatives that dramatically changed policy, practice, and culture on two campuses. 3) Towards Implementation: This section describes existing resources and future APLU efforts to further develop, generalize, and popularize the outcomes from this body of work. 4) Key Learnings: This section outlines ten takeaway lessons and ideas that we learned from change-leaders across higher education in the process of developing Modernizing Scholarship for the Public Good. I’d love to hear your thoughts about the content of the report!!

You need to protect yourself - and understand your responsibility as a changemaker. Join me in a conversation with Pierce Edward Cornelius Otlhogile-Gordon, Ph.D. to dig into somatics, personal baggage we bring to equity work, and how we advance equity while reducing harm.

I've been working in DEI for the past six years, but I've got to admit: it's disheartening to see how many people have abandoned the work after reinvigorated efforts in Summer 2020. I'm not surprised. But it still doesn't feel good. Later this month, Anti-Racism Daily is holding a free workshop on how to overcome fatigue felt in this work. We'll be discussing how to address waning engagement with staff, and how to resource ourselves as leaders with the emotional toll of swimming upstream. RSVP for the Zoom using the link below. Tag someone that might benefit 👇🏾 https://lnkd.in/g7bWe349

Interesectionality is a critical element for STEM identity and sense of belonging in STEM. This type of research is important to shine a light on the systemic issues in the STEM workforce and I look forward to digging into the findings further. Thank you Erin A. Cech for this work. "Cech hopes her new study, published today in Science Advances, will add fuel to that discussion. After surveying 25,000 STEM professionals from 2017 to 2019, she found that scientists who identified as part of a minority group—including women, people of color, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ scientists, those with a disability, and people with more than one of those identities—are disadvantaged in a multitude of ways compared with heterosexual, able-bodied, white men. They are paid less and report garnering less professional respect from their work colleagues—even after accounting for variation in education, job characteristics, work effort, family responsibilities, and other factors." #intersectionality #equity #STEM #belonging #inclusion #STEMWorkforce #research #data #STEMIdentity https://lnkd.in/gwqh-jXM