The Graduate Equity Progress Tool begins at the pre-recruitment stage to underscore the importance of the preparatory work that needs to happen even before recruiting diverse graduate students.
Pre-Recruitment
Key Terms
Recruitment and Outreach Programs
- Black PhD Network
- Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science SACNAS
- McNair Scholars
- The Posse Foundation
- GEM Fellowship
- National Name Exchange
Articles/Books for Recruitment Support
- Pipeline Development Literature
- Institutional Recruitment Interventions
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2022.674669/full
- Supporting Historically Underrepresented Groups through Mentorship
- Okum, Tema (2010). The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Dont Want To Know. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC.
Understanding underrepresented communities
Understanding Impact of Systemic Barriers
- Obstacles underrepresented student face on the pathway to the PhD
- Irving, Debby (2014). Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Elephant Room Press: Plano, TX.
- Lipmanowicz, Henri and McCandless, Keith (2013). The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation. . Liberating Structures Press
- Katznelson, Ira (2023). When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. W. W. Norton & Company: New York, NY.
Promoting Equity
*Though this resource is geared towards K–12 school districts, many of the points and strategies are relevant to assessing departmental commitment to DEIJ
Community and Belonging
Articles and Books for Establishing Sustainable Practices
- Creating a Racial Theory of Change
- Love, Bettina (2019). We want to do more than survive: abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press: Boston, MA.
- Wheatley, Margarey and Deborah Frieze (2011). Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Oakland, CA.
Community Agreements
- Developing Community Agreements
- Implementing and Monitoring Community AgreementsImplementing and Monitoring Community Agreements
Facilitation & Equity Tips
Implementing Structural Change
- Restructuring Graduate Programs
- Build a Better PhD
- Six Circle Model
- Accountability & Structural Change
- Lipmanowicz, Henri and McCandless, Keith (2013). The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation. Liberating Structures Press.