Promote Scholars of Color

Task Force Recommendation: Elevate and Protect the Status of Women

Task Force Project: Promote scholars of color

Champion: Brian Beam, Rachel Hatch

Status: Ongoing

Implementation Team Actions

  • A. Garcia received the Marshall Dulaney Pitcher Award at the 2020 Student Annual online competition at the Wonsook Kim School of Art.
  • Discussion that includes Dr. Suejung Han on barriers for transgender individuals for health care.
  • Spotlight on Dr. Venus Evans-Winters’ research and new book, Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry (BFQI). 
  • Feature on how  Jerey McKinney’s personal journey informs her teaching in the School of Social Work.
  • Development of the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence (FITE) under the leadership of Dr. Yojanna Cuenca-Carlino.
  • Explored Dr. Tina Thompson's study abroad to Barbados to examine diversity in the workplace. 
  • Feature on Archana Shekara’s collaboration with a university in China to explore culturally aware graphic design.
  • Story on 30 years of the Organization of Latino/a Employees with insights from scholars Dr. Maria Canabal, Dr. Maura Toro-Morn, and Dr. Rocío Rivadeneyra.
  • Dr. Miltonette Craig featured in a Q&A in the spring 2020 Redbird Scholar, and recognized as a 2020 Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
  • Dr. Aslihan Spaulding’s work with students studying farm-to-table earns a Living Our Values Award.
  • Music Professor Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum made the cover of and was featured in an article and video for the fall 2019 Redbird Scholar .
  • Graduate student Lavender Ntaoti was featured in our commencement series on News and in the fall Redbird Scholar .
  • Graduate student Abbi Benson was featured in the fall 2018 Redbird  Scholar .
  • Illinois Art Station director Isra El-Beshir was featured in the spring 2019 Redbird  Impact .
  • Art student Camila Pasquel was featured in our commencement series on News .
  • Graduate students Rosario Marroquin-Flores and Pooja Kadaba Ranganath were highlighted in a News feature on the new RSO Society for Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).
  • Students Atsuko Masuyama and Adriana Lizardi were featured in the fall 2018 issue of Redbird Impact . The article was reprinted in the August 2019 issue of the alumni magazine.
  • Professor Anu Gokhale was featured in a fall 2018 Redbird Scholar story about the University’s Fulbright Scholars .
  • Associate Professor Nobuko Adachi’s work establishing the new Ethnicity and Ethnography Laboratory and Research Center appeared in the fall 2018 Redbird Scholar .
  • Associate Professor Noha Shawki and University College’s Katie Pratt were featured in a Q&A about the American Democracy Project’s Political Engagement Project in the fall 2018 Redbird Impact .
  • Professor Ani Yazedjian was awarded a $5 million federal grant to assist at-risk youth. Story was published in the Redbird Scholar .

    • Next step/Timeline

    Fall Redbird Scholar:

    • Dr. Aslihan Spaulding and Iuliia Tetteh, research investigating millennials and how to keep them engaged in the classroom.
    • Image of Research contest featuring women of color scholars

     

    Fall Impact planned:

    • Q&A with Dr. Rosie Hauck
    • Story about Professor Archana Shekara’s Design Streak program
    • CAUSE project profile will prominently feature a female student of color