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PRINCETON DIVERSITY & INCLUSION NEWSLETTER
FOR FACULTY AND ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS

March 2022
A curated guide to relevant diversity and inclusion educational opportunities, news, campus events, funding opportunities, and national research
HIGHLIGHTS
Princeton voices: Speaking out on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
As the world grapples in real time with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Princeton scholars are speaking to the moment. Many Princeton faculty members, alumni, staff and students are sharing their expertise and perspectives in op-eds, on television and cable news programs, online and in print publications, on virtual panels and across social media.

ASL and Deaf culture classes are part of an expanded focus on disability and accessibility
Students in Daniel Maier’s ASL 102 course are among the first cohort able to fulfill their Princeton language requirement with American Sign Language, which is now the basis of five ASL language courses at the University. Princeton also offers the class “American Deaf Culture.”

‘You can’t assume by looking at me that you understand my context.’ Our yearlong Year of the Tiger series begins.
Lunar New Year celebrations last month ushered in a Year of the Tiger, a moment of pride as well as reflection for Princeton’s vibrant Asian and Asian American community. Throughout the year, we will be elevating the voices of faculty, staff, students, and researchers from the community in a series of thoughtful interviews exploring questions of identity, pride, hope, the lived experience of anti-Asian racism, and meaningful steps that allies can take.

NEWS ITEMS

Watch the inspirational video of Nobel laureate Maria Ressa’s visit to her NJ high school
Voted most likely to succeed in 1982, Filipino journalist Maria Ressa returned to Toms River High School North 40 years later on Friday, Feb. 18, as a Princeton graduate, TIME Person of the Year and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Princeton will enroll more transfer students starting this fall
Princeton will significantly expand its transfer admission program over the next few years, gradually increasing from the 40 transfer students currently enrolled to approximately 100. The University reinstated its transfer program in 2018 to support the enrollment of more undergraduates from first-generation, lower-income, military or community college backgrounds.

SPIA program for data science research welcomes its first fellows
In fall 2021, Princeton’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC), with support from the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), launched the ESOC Fellowship for Data-Driven Research, a program that prepares recent college graduates from underrepresented backgrounds to conduct data-driven research. 

In McCarter Theatre’s ‘Dreaming Zenzile,’ an accomplished alumna’s own dream comes true
In 2012, when Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa was a sophomore at Princeton, she attended a performance at McCarter Theater Center of “The Convert.” A native of Zimbabwe, she was excited to see this new work by Zimbabwean playwright Danai Gurira, premiering while Gurira was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. As Tawengwa, a budding composer and vocalist, watched the performance, she made a wish that one day she would have her own debut on the McCarter stage. Ten years later, Tawengwa got her wish — in an unexpected way. 


EVENTS

PRINCETON  EVENTS
Wesaam Al-Badry Artist Conversation
Monday, March 14th - 4:30 PM
Robertson Hall - Bowl 016

Register here to attend in person.
Register here to attend the Zoom webinar.
Artist and photojournalist Wesaam Al-Badry will discuss his ongoing photographic project documenting the lives of essential workers and their families in California’s Central and Salinas Valleys. These areas represent the fertile heart of California agriculture, where farmworkers harvest over a third of the nation’s vegetables and 40% of the fruit and nuts grown in the United States. Al-Badry will be joined in conversation by Leydy Rangel, United Farm Workers Foundation, and Sandra Valdez, Farmworker.

Women in History Academic Panel
Thursday, March 17 - 7:00 PM 
Carl A. Fields Center 
Register here
Join the GSRC and a panel of Princeton professors to discuss their experiences in academia, as well as the history of Women in their respective studies! We will be joined by Prof. Laura Edwards and Prof Catherine Clune-Taylor.

Alejandra Uslenghi | Modernism's Blindspot: Exiled Women Photographers in Latin America, 1930s-1960s
Tuesday, March 22nd - 4:30 PM
216 Burr Hall 
Register here
The talk explores the impact on the development of modernist photography and culture of female émigré photographers who found refuge from persecution and forged new lives in Latin America during and after WWII. 


Black Women and the Church: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Tuesday, March 22nd - 6:00 PM
Carl A. Fields Center, Room 104
Register here
Author Deesha Philyaw, winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and other honors for her debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” will join Rev. Dr. Theresa Thames, associate dean of the Office of Religious Life, and Keri Day, associate professor of constructive theology and African American religion at the Princeton Theological Seminary, for a thought-provoking conversation on women in religion and experiences in the church.
 
Black Earth Film Series: Kahlil Joseph, Onye Anyanwu and Bradford Young
Tuesday, March 22nd -  6:00 PM
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street
Advance tickets required; reserve tickets through University Ticketing.

Black Earth is a film series organized by Princeton’s Dorothy Krauklis ’78 Professor of Visual Arts Deana Lawson in collaboration with Visiting Professor in the Program in Visual Arts and the Department of Art and Archaeology Tina Campt. It aspires to a twofold intervention in how we envision the multiple ecologies of our planet. 
In the next year, researchers should expect to face a sensitive set of questions whenever they send their papers to journals, and when they review or edit manuscripts. More than 50 publishers representing over 15,000 journals globally are preparing to ask scientists about their race or ethnicity — as well as their gender — in an initiative that’s part of a growing effort to analyse researcher diversity around the world. Publishers say that this information, gathered and stored securely, will help to analyse who is represented in journals, and to identify whether there are biases in editing or review that sway which findings get published. Pilot testing suggests that many scientists support the idea, although not all.
National Research & News Highlights

A New Take on Gender and Productivity During COVID-19
Anecdotal and other empirical evidence says women are publishing less than men over all during the pandemic. This study found otherwise.


Land Acknowledgments Spur Controversies
A controversial land acknowledgment led to a clash between a University of Washington professor and administrators. Native scholars say the practice has value but can be problematic without a commitment to supporting Indigenous communities.

More Black Students Enroll in Select Liberal Arts Colleges
A new report from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education found that multiple high-ranking liberal arts colleges saw increases in first-year Black student enrollment. However, some experts say challenges still remain.

Diversity on the Rise Among College Presidents
Colleges hired a greater share of Black and other nonwhite leaders in the months after Black Lives Matter became a household term than they did before, Inside Higher Ed analysis shows. Is the shift meaningful, and will it last?

Contact 
Thank you for reading the newsletter. We welcome your feedback and your suggestions. Our office is available to discuss opportunities to advance access, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within academic departments.  We collaborate with departments to enhance outreach and professional development; facilitate training and learning; and improve engagement and community-building.  Please contact us to begin a conversation.
Shawn Maxam
Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion
smaxam@princeton.edu
 
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