Ortiz Research Group: Diversity @ MIT

Departmental Best Practices

Search Committees

MIT Faculty Search Committee Handbook - This handbook is intended to aid in diversifying the applicant pool when conducting searches.

University of Michigan
-Faculty Recruitment Handbook. This Handbook describes best practices, from initiation through evaluation, for a complete faculty search. University of Michigan.
-2007 : STRIDE Faculty Recruitment Workshop Presentation (2007): PowerPoint ; PDF The PowerPoint presentation is designed to provide workshop attendees both with background information and concrete advice about practices that make searches more successful (in producing diverse candidate pools and hiring the candidates you want to attract).
- Faculty Candidate Evaluation Tool
- Positive and Problematic Practices in Faculty Recruitment

University of Wisconsin-Madison : "Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions"

Stanford University : Guide to Recruiting and Retaining an Excellent and Diverse Faculty at Stanford.

Where to advertise faculty positions and recruit underrepresented minorities for graduate school

Departmental Climate & Retention

University of Michigan : Creating a Positive Departmental Climate : Best Practices

Frequently-Asked Questions: Retention of Science and Engineering Faculty who are Women and/or Members of Racial/Ethnic Minorities

Mentoring

A New Approach to Mentoring : Kathy E. Kram and Monica C. Higgins, MIT Sloan Management Review, September 2008.

Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty : Burroughs Wellcome Fund; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

How to Mentor Graduate Students : A Guide for Faculty at a Diverse University : University of Michigan

How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide For Graduate Students at a Diverse University : University of Michigan, the Rackham School of Graduate Studies

Mentoring Junior Faculty. Boyce, M., Cebe P., Gibson L., et al (2006) Mentoring Booklet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MIT Report to the Faculty on Advising and Mentoring of Undergraduates : March 2005.

MIT Guide for Informal Mentoring

Where to direct underrepresented minority students and scholars to for fellowships and scholarships

Mentoring for Academic Careers in Engineering: Proceedings of the PAESMEM/ Stanford Engineering Group : Eve Riskin, Mari Ostendorf, Pamela Cosman, Michelle Effros, Jia Li, Sheila Hemami, Robert M. Gray, 2005.

The International Mentor: Strategies and Guidelines for the Practice of Mentoring : W. Brad Johnson, United States Naval Academy, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Vol. 33 (1), 88-96, 2002.

Do graduate students need mentoring? Luna, G. and D. Cullen, College Student Journal, 1998. 32(3): p. 322-330.

Mentoring and women in academia: Reevaluating the traditional model : C. Chandler, NWSA Journal, 1996. 8: p. 79-100.

Supervisory mentoring by advisors: Relationships with doctoral student potential, productivity, and commitment : Green, S.G. and T.N. Bauer, Personnel Psychology, 1995. 48: p. 537-561.

Teaching Engineering : Philip Wankat and Frank Oreovicz, Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering