The Chief Inclusion Office is launching a weekly resources announcement to the Clarkson Community. The resources are meant to help people explore diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging [DEIB] for themselves, in their communities, and in our institution. They may be resources that help you re-examine society and do some introspective reflection, explain core concepts like intersectionality or anti-racism, or practical guides for action, such as how to review a syllabus for equity-minded practice.
The resources will be linked in the announcement and saved to a common google folder for all to reference, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a0DXWcmwl4a5zM5lMsBZR_7uk8_OZhIY?usp=sharing.
If you would like to share thoughts on resources, please contact Diversity@Clarkson.edu. We will also be using some of these resources as the basis of workshops and professional development throughout the year.
This week we focus on mentorship.
A recent article published in Inside Higher Ed discusses the mentoring underrepresented minority students when you are white https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/01/13/advice-mentoring-underrepresented-minority-students-when-you-are-white-opinion
University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research offers a great set of resources on mentorship. https://ictr.wisc.edu/mentoring/
It is also important to understand mentorship at the intersection of invisible labor for underrepresented staff and faculty. https://cen.acs.org/careers/diversity/Making-invisible-work-STEM-visible/97/i26
Linda Wang’s article in Chemical & Engineering News, “Making invisible work in STEM more visible” gives a good overview on how people underrepresented in STEM fields take on a disproportionate amount of mentoring and other service commitments. It’s time to acknowledge it.