Diversity: Resources for Faculty

• People who have information and can answer questions:
  • Members of the Divisional Diversity Committee
  • Faculty Equity Advisor - Shelley Halpain
  • Graduate Student and Instructional Services (GSIS)
• Informational materials and slides for presentations

• Associate VC for Equity - Jeanne Ferrante
• Cross-Cultural Center
• Women's Center
• LGBT Resource Center
• Intergroup Relations Program
• Campus Diversity Website (especially their inventory of resources)
• Academic Senate: Guidelines for Developing a Course that fulfills the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Graduation Requirement
• Campus Initiative for K-12 Education: Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE)
• UC San Diego Charter School: Preuss School

• National Institutes of Health: NIH supplements

• Haak, D.C.,  HilleRisLmbers, J., Pitre, E, Freeman, S. (2011) Science (332)1213-1216:  Increased Structure and Active Learning Reduce the Achievement Gap in Introductory Biology
• Ovink and Veazey, 2011 (Res High Edu). More Than “Getting Us Through:” A Case Study in Cultural Capital Enrichment of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates
• Stanger-Hall, K. F., Shockley, F. W., & Wilson, R. E. (2011). Teaching students how to study: a workshop on information processing and self-testing helps students learn Cell Biology Education, 10(2), 187–198.
• Gurung, R. A. R., Weidert, J., & Jeske, A. (2010). Focusing on how students study. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 10(1), 28–35.
• Mervis, J.2010.Undergraduate science. Better intro courses seen as key to reducing attrition of STEM majors. Science 330:306
• Kimberly Tanner, and Deborah Allen, (2007), CBE (6), 252-258: Cultural Competence in the College Biology Classroom
• Rath, K.A., Peterfreund, A.R., Xenos, S.P., Bayliss, F.,Carna;, N. (2007) CBE 6 (3), 203-216: Supplemental Instruction in Introductory Biology I: Enhancing the Performance and Retention of Underrepresented Minority Students
• Sible, J. C., Wilhelm, D. E., Lederman, M. (2006) “Teaching Cell and Molecular Biology for Gender Equity” *Cell Biology Education – Life Sciences Education(5), 227-238
• Chamany, Katayoun (2006) “Science and Social Justice – Making the Case for Case Studies” *Journal of College Science Teaching* *36*(2) pp. 54-9 
• Dirks, C., Cunningham, M. , (2006)CBE Life Sci Educ 5(3): 218-226: Enhancing Diversity in Science: Is Teaching Science Process Skills the Answer?
• Rosser, S.V. 1998. Group work in science, engineering, and mathematics: Consequences of ignoring gender and race. College Teaching 46:82-88
• Fullilove, R.E., Treisman, P.U. (1990) J. Negro Educ. 59, 463: Mathematics achievement among African American undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley: An evaluation of the Mathematics Workshop Program.

• Summers, M.F., Hrabowski III, F, A. (2006) Science 31, 1870-1871: Preparing Minority Scientists and Engineers
• Warren, Annika K (2011) Catalyst. Checking the Pulse of Women in Bioscience: What Organizations Need to Know

• Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (NSF)
• Sellers, S.L., Friedrich, K.A., Gunasekera, H., Saleem, T. & Burstyn, J.N. Case Studies in Inclusive Teaching in Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. (Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning, University of Wisconsin, 2005).

Rice University's ADVANCE database can help you find a diverse pool of PhDs and postdocs, including:

• Over 600 underrepresented PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in science, engineering and psychology
• The option to search by department or research keyword
• Contact information and research statements
• Opportunity to download candidate CVs and save search results to Excel