ADVANCE - Purdue and the Center for Faculty Success

Briefings & Information

Meet Your Diversity Catalysts:
Andrew S. Hirsch, Kathleen Howell, Clint C.S. Chapple

ADVANCE-Purdue recently formed a team of highly accomplished faculty members to promote diversity and inclusion at Purdue.

Known as the Diversity Catalysts, these individuals are learning the scholarship related to diversity and inclusion, sparking conversations about diversity-related issues across campus and helping to find solutions to perceived problems. They also are serving as resources to fellow faculty members by providing information on mentoring opportunities and departmental search procedures in the STEM colleges.

Through this new initiative, ADVANCE-Purdue is developing STEM scholars who enrich understanding of diversity and inclusion on campus in ways that benefit all endeavors. The Diversity Catalysts are currently developing workshops for academic leaders, department heads and search committees. We encourage you to contact a Diversity Catalyst to discuss your ideas and concerns related to promoting diversity on the back. Their information can be found here.

Meet Mary Ellen Bock:
Purdue's Presidential ADVANCE Advocate

Mary Ellen Bock, professor of statistics, began her term as Purdue's Presidential ADVANCE Advocate (PAA) in Fall 2010. Formerly the head of the Department of Statistics for 15 years, Bock will focus on building Purdue's underrepreseted faculty recruitment efforts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and on populating STEM departements with advocates for advancing women of color.

"Increasing our number of underrepresented tenure-track faculty will be an enormous benefit to Purdue students," says Bock. "The population is much more diverse than it was a generation ago, and so is the workforse these students will enter."

Among her credentials, Bock is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics. In addition, she is a former president of the American Statistical Association, former chair of the Scientific Committee for the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, and former co-chair of the Advisory Committee for the NSF-funded Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute

Briefings

• 2011 February Briefing