Academic Diversity & Inclusion Newsletter

PRINCETON DIVERSITY & INCLUSION NEWSLETTER
FOR FACULTY AND ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS
September 2020
A curated guide to relevant diversity and inclusion educational opportunities, news, campus events, funding opportunities, and national research

Highlights

Letter from President Eisgruber on the University’s efforts to combat systemic racism

President Christopher L. Eisgruber has written to the University community to outline the next steps the University administration will take to address systemic racism at Princeton and beyond. An update and overview of Princeton University’s ongoing efforts to combat systemic racism is published on the University's homepage.

Wantchekon leads new effort to propel Black students into top economics Ph.D. programs

Wantchekon, a professor of politics and international affairs, is bringing his experience building academic pipelines in Africa to universities in the United States. This month, he announced a new partnership between ASE and Hunter College in New York City that, through a collaboration with Princeton University, will take direct aim at the underrepresentation of Black and minority students in the field of economics.

NEWS ITEMS

To enhance and support the academic, social and community development of underrepresented students during their studies, Princeton University’s Graduate School established the Graduate Scholars Program (GSP).

Since the launch of the Princeton Online Tutoring Network (POTN) in April, volunteer tutors from the University community have led more than 600 virtual tutoring sessions with K-12 students from underrepresented groups.

Princeton’s #TellUsTigers Instagram series, now in its fifth year, captures first-person stories that open up the diverse inner worlds of Princetonians.

This summer, the Princeton University Materials Academy (PUMA) welcomed 15 New Jersey high school students from underrepresented backgrounds for a three-week summer program that focused on materials science and engineering.

EVENTS

PRINCETON VIRTUAL EVENTS

“Interrogating Biases at Life Magazine” Panel Discussion
September 11, 2020
2:00 PM ET
Zoom Webinar
Presented by The Princeton University Art Museum, this live webinar roundtable will showcase Princeton voices from across disciplines as they consider the ways intersectional biases persistent in the US in the middle of the twentieth century informed Life magazine.

2020 Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture: “Freedom of Thought and the Struggle to End Slavery”
September 15, 2020
4:30 PM ET
Zoom Webinar
The annual Constitution Day lecture commemorates the signing of the United States Constitution and explores permutations of constitutional law to the present day. This event is presented by the Program in American Studies.

Turning dialogue into action: Promoting systemic change
September 21, 2020
4:00 PM ET
Zoom Webinar
This webinar invites participants to hear from experts about how to use dialogue as a tool for action for systemic change in local politics, local communities, and on college campuses.

Anthony Jack, in Conversation with Cecilia Rouse
September 30, 2020
4:30 PM ET
Zoom Webinar
The McGraw Center’s Inclusive Teaching at Princeton series, will showcase sociologist Anthony Jack, Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard and author of The Privileged Poor as he engages in conversation with Cecilia Rouse, Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). The two will discuss how class divides on campus create barriers to academic success—and share what schools can do to truly level the playing field.

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