CRJ Event Series: Transforming Structures of Whiteness in University Leadership

Day 3: Recognizing Invisible Labor in the University: Ways Forward

Friday, May 6, 2022 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm | zoom

Register Here: https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s-BLvUG0StS7ErSqa07VdQ

Faculty and staff from historically minoritized groups disproportionately engage in research, teaching, mentoring, service, and leadership work that is essential to university functioning and to a mission of servingness. Yet such efforts are of ten invisible and unrewarded. Panelists will discuss examples of promising practices developed both wi thin the University of California system and beyond for recognizing invisible labor.

Featuring:

Shauntay Larkins, Assistant Manager and Undergraduate Advisor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Emily J. Ozer, Professor of Community Health Sciences, UC Berkeley
Stefano Profumo, Professor of Physics; Chair, Senate Committee on Academic Personnel
Jackie Rabouin Psychotherapist , UCSC Counseling and Psychological Services
Margaret Shih, Associate Vice Chancellor, BruinX, UCLA Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Neil Jacoby Chair in Management; Professor of Management and Organizations, UCLA

Read More:

How We Embraced the Challenge of Institutional Change to Pave the Way for Community-Engaged Research by Emily Ozer
Promoting Institutional Change To Support Public Psychology: Innovations and Challenges at the University of California by Emily Ozer, Regina Langhout, and Rhona Weinstein

Day 2: Calling out Whiteness in University Structures of Leadership

Friday, April 1, 2022 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm | zoom

Register Here (UCSC only): https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpcu6urzoqEtPv8psrEq46Bk29RHe7SfqY

Centering the voices and lived experiences of faculty of color (FOC) is critical for exposing and transforming problematic structures of university leadership. From a brief research talk, audiences will learn how FOC navigate and reform structures of Whiteness in leadership. Interactive discussion with divisional deans will follow, with goals of understanding how to bolster the leadership efforts of FOC and undo structures of Whiteness.

Featuring:

Rebecca Covarrubias, Assistant Professor psychology
Katherine Quinteros, Graduate Student, Department of Psychology

Read their research paper here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cUQCFl1ov776qD3isTJ9k_LZMM4I6Ajy/view?usp=sharing

Day 1: Enacting Solidarities: Faculty/Staff Affinity Groups Report Back

Friday, February 18, 2022 | 12:00 Pm – 1:30pm | zoom

Register Here (UCSC only): https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEucO2ppjsjEtKFsgWSQEmRPBa-9g9P8qvK

The Faculty Community Networking Program was created to provide DEI arenas of community, development, and support for faculty from historically marginalized communities on campus. In this forum, leaders of these groups will present the issues and recommendations that emerged from their collective discussions, and report back on their groups’ experiences in trying to improve faculty community, development, and support. Discussion will focus on how to move this work forward.

Featuring:

African-American/Black/Caribbean (chaired by Courtney Bonam)
Asian American/Pacific Islander (chaired by L.S. Kim)
Disabilities & Chronic Illness (chaired by Megan Moodie)
Indigenous (chaired by Katie Keliiaa)
Latinx/Chicanx (chaired by Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Women in STEM (chaired by Rebecca Braslau)

Read the groups 2018-2019 reports here: https://academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/faculty-community-networking-program/2018-19_group_reports.html

This event series is sponsored by:

The Center for Racial Justice