Faculty Development Core

Supporting the career development of historically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in STEM fields maximizes the success and retention of such faculty, diversifies the biomedical workforce, and fuels scientific discovery and innovation. The main goal of the Faculty Development core is to support and manage faculty development activities for the University of New Mexico (UNM) FIRST cohort program and institutionalize these practices so that UNM becomes an inclusive environment for all faculty.

We will be adding more to this page once we have our new faculty members so stay tuned!

Below are some of the guiding literature to strength our university and expand our committment to inclusive exellence. 

Carnes, M., Devine, P. G., Isaac, C., Manwell, L. B., Ford, C. E., Byars-Winston, A., Fine, E., & Sheridan, J. T. (2012). Promoting Institutional Change Through Bias Literacy. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education,5(2), 63-77. doi:10.1037/a0028128

Edwards, K. (2002). "Short Stops": Peer Support of Scholarly Activity. Academic Medicine, 77(9), 939. doi:10.1097/00001888-200209000-00045

Files, J. A., Blair, J. E., Mayer, A. P., & Ko, M. G. (2008). Facilitated Peer Mentorship: A Pilot Program for Academic Advancement of Female Medical Faculty. Journal of Women's Health, 17(6), 1009-1015. doi:10.1089/jwh.2007.0647

Joseph, T. D., & Hirshfield, L. E. (2011). ‘Why Don't You Get Somebody New to Do It?’ Race and Cultural Taxation in the Academy. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(1), 121-141. doi:10.1080/01419870.2010.496489 

Johnson, K. S., Hastings, S. N., Purser, J. L., & Whitson, H. E. (2011). The Junior Faculty Laboratory: An Innovative Model of Peer Mentoring. Academic Medicine, 86(12), 1577-1582. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e31823595e8

Myers, V. L., & Dreachslin, J. L. (2007). Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of Healthcare Management, 52(5), 290-298.

O’Meara, K., Templeton, L., & Nyunt, G. (2018). Earning Professional Legitimacy: Challenges Faced by Women, Underrepresented Minority, and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty. Teachers College Record, 120, 1-38.

Rodríguez, J.E., Campbell, K.M. & Pololi, L.H. Addressing disparities in academic medicine: what of the minority tax?. BMC Med Educ 15, 6 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-015-0290-9

Sarabipour, S., Niemi, N., Burgess, S., Smith, C., Bisson Filho, A., Ibrahim, A., & Clark, K. (2023). Insights from a survey of mentorship experiences by graduate and postdoctoral researchers. bioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.05.539640v1

Settles, I. H., Buchanan, N. T., & Dotson, K. (2019). Scrutinized But Not Recognized: (In)visibility and Hypervisibility Experiences of Faculty of Color. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 113, 62-74. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.003

Smith, E. R., Calderwood, P. E., Dohm, F. A., & Gill Lopez, P. (2013). Reconceptualizing Faculty Mentoring within a Community of Practice Model. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 21(2), 175-194. doi:10.1080/13611267.2013.813731.

Spector, N. D., Mann, K. J., Anderson, M. S., Narayan, A. P., & McGregor, R. (2010). Facilitated Peer Group Mentoring: A Case Study of Creating Leadership Skills Among the Associate Program Directors of the APPD. Academic Pediatrics, 10(3), 161-164. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2010.03.002

Uddin L. Q., & de los Reyes, A. (2021). Cultivating allyship through casual mentoring to promote diversity. Trends in Cognitive Science 25(10): 813-815. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.07.014.

Valantine, H. A., & Collins, F. S. (2015). National Institutes of Health Addresses the Science of Diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(40), 12240-12242. doi:10.1073/pnas.1515612112

Whittaker, J. A., & Montgomery, B. L. (2014). Cultivating Institutional Transformation and Sustainable STEM Diversity in Higher Education through Integrative Faculty Development. Innovative Higher Education,39(4), 263-275. doi:10.1007/s10755-013-9277-9

Williamson, T., Goodwin, C.R., & Ubel, P. (2021). Minority Tax Reform — Avoiding Overtaxing Minorities When We Need Them Most. N Engl J Med 2021; 384:1877-1879. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2100179

Whittaker, J. A., Montgomery, B. L., & Martinez Acosta, V. G. (2015). Retention of Underrepresented Minority Faculty: Strategic Initiatives for Institutional Value Proposition Based on Perspectives from a Range of Academic Institutions. Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education, 13(3), A136-A145.