Month: August 2020

August 28, 2020 ADVANCE Weekly Roundup

The efforts of faculty parents to balance work and childcare has recently been brought back into the spotlight given the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need for strong institutional responses to alleviate the additional burdens of limited childcare facilities. Retention of faculty and staff parents is highly dependent upon our community supporting all members . . .

August 21, 2020 ADVANCE Weekly Roundup

The focus of today’s ADVANCE Weekly Roundup article highlights that requesting pay history in job applications can increase bias and offer discrepancies. By simply ceasing to ask applicants about pay history, we can make significant strides toward a more equitable and inclusive hiring process. In fourteen states, this is ingrained into hiring laws; however Michigan . . .

August 14, 2020 ADVANCE Weekly Roundup

Repeatedly tapping minority ethnic and gender groups for additional service responsibilities can disproportionately burden these academicians. As these burdens accumulate and begin to impact their scholarly activities, they experience what is known as “cultural taxation.” This week’s edition of the ADVANCE Weekly Roundup features an article from Nature in which five researchers from minority ethnic . . .

Trista Vick-Majors Named to 2 National Boards

ADVANCE at Michigan Tech would like to extend their congratulations to Trista Vick-Majors (BioSci), for being named to the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Planetary Protection and the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Science Advisory Board. See the story which was published by in the August 6 edition of Tech Today below.***** Trista Vick-Majors (BioSci) . . .

New Funding for Michigan Tech Faculty!

ADVANCE at Michigan Tech would like to extend their congratulations to Pengfei Xue (CEE/GLRC), Michelle Jarvie-Eggard (EF/RISE) and Bruce Lee (BioMed/HRI) for their new funding! See the story which was published by Sponsored Programs in the August 5 edition of Tech Today below. ***** Pengfei Xue (CEE/GLRC) is the principal investigator on a project that . . .