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Casey Foundation Grant Aims To Improve Minority Rates Among Faculty

December 02, 2014 College of Arts and Humanities | Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity | The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

This article quotes Ruth Zambrana, director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity.

By Carly Kemper, The Diamondback.

Minorities are still “disproportionately underrepresented” within university faculty, according to research by Ruth Zambrana, a women’s studies professor and director of this university’s Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity.

To combat this trend, the Annie E. Casey Foundation granted the CRGE a $137,500 grant aimed at encouraging academic communities to be more informed and inclusive regarding underrepresented minorities faculty.

The Casey Foundation is interested in distributing Zambrana’s research to people — such as university presidents and those at the Association of Higher Education — who can make a difference

“The new grant is about how you disseminate this work, how you make it available to the communities of higher education, the scholars themselves and to the administrators,” Zambrana said. 

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