RISE UPP Events
2024 North Carolina Postdoc Research Symposium
We are excited to announce the first North Carolina Postdoc Research Symposium which will showcase research from postdoctoral scholars across the state, including UNC-CH, NC State, NC A&T, UNC-Charlotte, East Carolina University, and UNC-Wilmington. The symposium will take place on June 14th at North Carolina’s Biotechnology Center from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
This is a multidisciplinary event that will feature a poster session, flash talks, a lunch/networking session, and a keynote address. Secure your spot by registering via this link. Please note, there is a registration fee of $25 to attend, and lunch will be provided. Limited slots are available for complimentary headshots allocated on a first come, first serve basis. To present your research with either a Poster or Flash Talk, please submit your abstract here. Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd places for both the poster presentations and flash talks. The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, May 5th.
Whether you're a seasoned postdoc or new to the field, this event offers a valuable opportunity to network, share ideas, and gain inspiration for your research journey. Spaces for attending are limited, so early registration is encouraged. Register today and be a part of this enriching academic exchange!
DATE: June 14, 2024
TIME: 10 AM - 3 PM EST
LOCATION: North Carolina Biotechnology Center, 15 TW Alexander Dr, Durham, NC 27709
Webinar Series: From Influence to Impact: Maximizing Your Leadership Potential
“You have the power. You just don’t know how to use it - YET”
Journey from influence to impact with this comprehensive exploration of power dynamics tailored for educators. Gain insights into cultivating power through authentic qualities and leveraging persuasion techniques to effect meaningful change. Join Stevie Eberle as they present an engaging session design to help you empower yourself to unlock your full potential as a leader, driving lasting impact in your organization and community.
DATE: Tuesday April 30, 2024
TIME: 3:00-4:00 PM EST
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NASH Superconvening 2024
Join RISE UPP and the National Association of Higher Education Systems at the 2024 Superconvening in Washington DC on April 4-5, 2024. Register here.
Webinar Series: Making Academic Hiring Just: Key Insights for Academic Leaders, Search Committees, and Researchers
Extensive research examines the processes and practices that guide academic hiring. During this webinar, Leslie D. Gonzales, Dawn K. Culpepper, & Baili Park will discuss the findings of a conceptually-driven review of over 200 papers (e.g., empirical studies, gray papers, and commentaries) concerning academic hiring (Gonzales et al., 2024). The panelists will also discuss academic hiring through the lens of labor justice, a conceptual framework that seeks to remediate historical legacies of exclusion related to racism, genderism, among other isms while highlighting the intertwined interests of academics situated across varying ranks and appointment types. They will identify key labor justice issues that emerge across appointment types; outline key that administrators, search committees, and researchers should pose when implementing or studying academic recruitment and hiring; and identify justice-informed hiring practices that can be used across appointment types.
DATE: THURSDAY MARCH 28, 2024
TIME: 3:00-4:00 PM EST
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Webinar Series: Teaching research mentors inclusive people manager skills: Addressing productivity, morale and well-being in the lab
Naledi Saul, Director of the UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development, will share an overview of an NSF grant-funded collaborative initiative designed to retain diversity in the sciences by teaching biomedical scientists the frameworks, tools and language to inclusively lead high-functioning teams. In 2016, UCSF and City College of San Francisco’s Biotechnology Program launched an NSF grant-funded intervention designed to train research mentors in inclusive people manager skills, Three years later, both collaborated with California Life Sciences to assess if the resulting mentor/manager training would also resonate with industry scientists managing individual and team performance. Since its inception, over 1,000 scientists from over 70 academic institutions and biotech companies have completed our Inclusive Research Mentor/People Manager Series. Learn about the training and how using inclusive practices can increase clarity about performance and conduct expectations for trainees in the lab. (career.ucsf.edu/mentor-manage)
DATE: TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27 , 2024
TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 PM EST
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Webinar Series: Using the THRIVE Framework to Connect, Evaluate, and Review Best Practices of Academic Pathway Programs
This webinar, presented by the Academic Pipeline Project, is a discussion of the best practices of academic pathway initiatives, particularly those that serve underrepresented populations and people of color across the education landscape.
Panelists will describe these initiatives through the lens of their book Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelors to the Professoriate (Byrd & Mason, 2021), highlighting successful programs and strategies that leaders in higher education should consider when taking steps to diversify the Academy. They will also discuss their THRIVE framework, with its seven dimensions: T(Type), H(History), R (Research, Roles, Routines), I (Identity), I(Inclusion), V(Voice), and E(Expectations), to define effective program evaluation and assessment to make informed decisions on enhancing inclusive excellence on college campuses.
DATE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2024
TIME: 3:00-4:00 PM EST
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Webinar Series: Leveraging Systemness for Transformation
This webinar presented by the National Association of System Heads (NASH), a RISE UPP Alliance amplifying partner, will provide participants with an overview of the concept of systemness and how to leverage the power of a system to transform practices and enhance outcomes.
DATE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2023
TIME: 3:00-4:00 PM EST
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Webinar Series: RISE UPP Alliance Demographic Dashboard
Stephanie Johnston, a Functional Data Analyst with The Graduate School at UNC-Chapel Hill, will present an interactive dashboard tool developed collaboratively between the University of North Carolina System and the University System of Maryland. The dashboard can be used to explore race/ethnicity data within the four RISE UPP affiliated systems for STEM postdoctoral scholars and full-time faculty positions. Filters and parameters allow the user to compare various demographic and institutional attributes, view change over time, and drill down to different levels of detail. User-customized graphs and tables can be downloaded in several formats, including PowerPoint and Excel.
DATE: TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28, 2023
TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 PM EST
VEIEW THE RECODING HERE
Webinar Series: Cornell University’s Data-Driven Approach to Improving Department Climates
In this webinar, colleagues from Cornell University will discuss how they have leveraged grant funding, institutional survey data, and novel interventions to diversify their faculty and foster meaningful change in departmental climates. The panelists will focus on how they implemented and institutionalized change.
DATE: Tuesday October 31, 2023
TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 PM EST
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RISE UPP Webinar Series: Understanding Postdoc-To-Tenure Track Hiring Models
In the last 10 years, many colleges and universities have created postdoctoral fellowship programs that allow fellows the opportunity to transition (or “convert”) into tenure-track roles. In this webinar, Dr. Dawn Culpepper and Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale will discuss findings from a policy and practice review that synthesized key attributes of existing conversion programs (N=38) at institutional, consortium, and system levels.
DATE: Tuesday September 26, 2023
TIME: 2:30 - 3:30 PM EST
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NSF's 2023 Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDESNational Network Convening: Sustaining Equity-Driven Systems Change
NSF's 2023 Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES National Network Convening
The INCLUDES Coordination Hub is pleased to welcome our community to the 2023 in-person Convening. The Convening will be held Thursday, August 3rd, and Friday, August 4th, at The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center, 1400 M Street NW.
INCLUDES Alliances Meeting Day Wednesday, August 2nd
Current members of INCLUDES Alliances are cordially invited to join a pre-Convening meeting with the INCLUDES Coordination Hub team and NSF Project and Program Officers on Wednesday, August 2nd, in advance of the full Convening.
Members from each Alliance will participate in workshops and interactive sessions that build on the themes and outcomes from the 2022 Alliance Collective Convening in Arizona. This is a full-day event beginning at 9:30 a.m. Please plan your arrival in Washington, DC, accordingly.
NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance Summit
The NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance will host a summit on July 19 - 20, 2023, on Systemic Change for an Inclusive and Diverse Faculty. The Summit, held at UCLA’s Luskin Center, will explore key issues in advancing faculty diversity and inclusion through the sharing of emergent research and promising practices, community dialogue, and intentional network building. We welcome any scholar, practitioner, or institutional decision-maker to join us.
The Summit begins at 8:00 am PT on July 19 and ends at 12:00 pm PT on July 20.
For more information and to register, click HERE.
NIH Seminar: How Does Mentoring Impact Diversity in the Biomedical and Behavioral Research Workforce?
Successful mentoring relationships can positively impact the career trajectory of researchers across the talent cycle. This is particularly important for attracting and retaining diverse talent from underrepresented groups. Studies show that many factors contribute to successful mentorship experiences in scientific settings. In this seminar, a panel of experts will discuss the latest data, theoretical frameworks to inform mentorship, and building an inclusive environment.
NIH’s Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD), Marie A. Bernard, M.D., will moderate the 90-minute event featuring panelists who will discuss the importance of theoretical models and building an inclusive environment through mentorship. Dr. Karen Salt, Deputy Director for Research Culture and Environment within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will join the discussion to share insights from her work advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion in research careers.
DATE: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
TIME: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET
Register HERE for the Seminar
This event will include closed captioning. Sign language services and other reasonable accommodations are available upon request using the registration form.
NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance Virtual Summer Institute
June 12-16, 2023 | Synchronous Online Sessions
The virtual Aspire Summer Institute (ASI) will provide STEM campus leadership and faculty developers (e.g., Centers for Teaching & Learning, STEM Education Centers) as well as leadership from NSF-funded initiatives (e.g., AGEP, INCLUDES, IUSE) with the the opportunity to retreat, reflect and act to better support diversity, equity and inclusion efforts through the development of key skills applicable across faculty roles. Teams of participants will be supported in growing their capacity for this work, through gaining skills as change agents and applying and adapting their learning to enhance existing campus-level and organizational DEI initiatives. This no-cost virtual institute is sponsored by the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance
myPDO Monthly Webinar: Inter-Institutional Mentorship and Mentor Training
myPDO Monthly
Inter-institutional Mentorship and Mentor Training
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
1 p.m. ET
Register HERE
Postdoctoral scholars traditionally receive mentoring from a single research mentor, but research suggests this exacerbates isolation felt by postdocs and that a dyad alone can't meet a postdoc's full mentoring needs. This is particularly worrying for minoritized scholars, who often experience racial/ethnic isolation and increased negative experiences within academic climates. The NSF-funded Promise Academy in the University System of Maryland (USM) has been working to provide multiple mentors in a myriad of formats (staff, peer, sustained and short term) to help postdocs from minoritized backgrounds have more robust academic, professional, and support networks. Inter-institutional collaboration also has led to collaborative mentor training across participating campuses. Through funding through the NSF, Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES program, USM is working with three other university systems (the University of North Carolina, University of Texas, and Texas A&M University systems) to develop more state system approaches to postdoctoral mentorship, as well as collaborative approaches to acknowledge and support mentors since this critical activity is not often supported sufficiently.
Webinar Series: May 30, 2023 - Increasing Faculty Diversity Initiatives at UMBC & UMCP
Many universities are creating programs to increase faculty diversity on their campus. This webinar will provide an overview of two faculty hiring initiatives focused on increasing diversity and inclusion. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Fellows for Faculty Diversity Program was created to support promising scholars, artists, and creative practitioners, who are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access in the academy and to prepare those fellows for possible tenure track appointments at UMBC. Similarly, the University of Maryland, College Park's FAMILE (Faculty Advancement at Maryland for Inclusive and Learning Excellence) faculty hiring initiative was launched in April 2021 as a three pronged approach to increasing diversity and retention at UMCP. Learn about these programs and how they are approaching this important topic.
DATE: Tuesday May 30, 2023
TIME: 3:00-4:00 PM EST
VIEW THE WEBINAR RECORDING HERE.
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RISE UPP Cross Alliance Leadership Team Meeting and NPA Annual Conference
Members of the RISE UPP Alliance will meet in-person on Thursday, April 20th, 2023. The meeting takes place immediately preceding the 2023 NPA Annual Conference.
The meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., followed by a working dinner from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Register for the CALT Meeting is closed.
Date: Thursday April 20, 2023
Time: 9 AM - 5 PM ET, working dinner 6 PM - 8 PM ET
Professional Development: Special Invitation to CGS Webinar on SCOTUS Admissions Cases
Many of us in the graduate community are closely following the SCOTUS cases on higher education admissions and their potential implications for graduate admissions processes. Join CGS for a special, 90-minute webinar designed to prepare graduate schools for multiple possible outcomes of the cases. Please join CGS and our distinguished speakers on Tuesday, April 18 by registering at the link below. Please note that this is a members-only webinar.
The SCOTUS 2023 Decisions and the Future of Graduate Admissions
Tuesday, April 18, 2:00-3:30pm ET
Webinar Series: March 28, 2023 - UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Learn about the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which established in 1984 to support and promote women and minority scholars from underrepresented groups who wish to pursue academic careers at the University of California (UC). The program has operated under pre-and post-affirmative action environments and has adapted to include approaches that promote hiring of fellows into ladder-rank faculty positions at the UC. It has grown to be one of the largest and longest standing programs of its kind in the US and serves as a model program for supporting diversification of faculty as well as a network of similar programs at institutions across the US.
DATE: Tuesday March 28, 2023
TIME: 3:00-4:00 PM EST
VIEW THE WEBINAR RECORDING HERE.
Webinar Series: February 28, 2023 - Aspire Alliance
Learn about the The NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance and their work towards increasing the diversity of STEM faculty across the nation. This session will introduce participants to the Inclusive Professional Framework (IPF), a research-informed, holistic, professional development model created by the NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance.
DATE: Tuesday February 28, 2023
TIME: 3:00-4:00 PM EST