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Action Item: Develop and support mentorship and leadership opportunities for faculty, staff, and students of color

Ongoing

The Action Item is part of Clark’s continuous work.

The Action Item is part of Clark’s continuous work.

Create mentorship and leadership development program opportunities for faculty, staff, and students of color and support such leadership opportunities at Clark and in the community.

Updates

Updates as of March 30, 2022

  • The inaugural cohort of Clark University Advance Faculty/Staff Fellows (CU Advance) will conclude its work this May. Working collaboratively to create a supportive environment for advancing goals toward their professional advancement, the fellows have engaged in a set of curated professional development experiences that offer a network of resources, mentorship access, leadership development, and coaching opportunities to support Clark faculty and staff of color. They will be able to reflect on the experience and offer insights about ways to further develop the program for future cohorts of fellows.

Updates as of Oct. 14, 2021

  • Clark University has created a new mentorship and leadership development program that will be seeded under the aegis of the D’Army Bailey Diversity Fund over the next three years. CU Advance is a goals-centered mentorship program being piloted with faculty, staff, and students of color. The mission of this program is to facilitate a network of resources, mentorship, leadership development, and coaching opportunities to support Clark faculty and staff of color in making progress toward their professional goals, and to foster clearer and more structured intergenerational mentorship structures between BIPOC faculty/staff and BIPOC students.