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Mentoring of Black Graduate and Medical Students, Postdoctoral Scholars, and Early-Career Faculty in Science, Engineering, and Medicine Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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3 Ensuring the Advancement and Promotion of Black Faculty
Pages 15-26

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... . • In the first year of a program to provide debt-free education to Weill Cornell Medicine students with financial need, more underrepresented minorities, participants in the American Association of Medical Colleges Fee Assistance program, and graduates of public universities enrolled, with no drop in med ical exam scores (Dr.
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... . • As articulated by psychologist Kecia Thomas, "pet to threat" describes the situation when junior faculty members of color are initially doted upon, then maligned when they start to accomplish and threaten the existing system (Dr.
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From page 17...
... In the last 10 faculty searches, excellent URiM candidates were not selected because of a focus on narrow scientific subspecialties. To counter the focus on scientific fit, he and department chairs launched what they call a cluster hire, which allows for hiring up to four positions in one round of recruitment.
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From page 18...
... Daley noted, but also must "recognize the missteps." Guiding principles have been established to consider the school's history, spaces, artwork, and how to commemorate individuals. Applying these principles, a student society named for Oliver Wendell Holmes (who admitted the first Black students in 1850 but expelled them the next year after white students and faculty protested)
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From page 19...
... , American Association of Medical Colleges Fee Assistance program participants, and graduates of public universities compared with the previous 3 years, with no change in academic scores. New programs are also aiming to transition to residents at the WCM Medical Center and then to WCM faculty positions, and to retaining WCM postdoctoral scholars as faculty.
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From page 20...
... A Mentoring Academy was established in 2018 to foster mentorship and sponsoring across career pathways. JumpStart Research Career Development, launched in 2019, provides seed funds to senior postdoctoral scholars and junior faculty to help in the transition to become independent scientists.
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... , community, and community building to create a sense of belonging; and the importance of contextual and longitudinal data disaggregated by race/ethnicity and gender. Beyond socialization, strategies to promote career advancement include recognition, informed and culturally competent faculty and administrators, and new models and styles of mentoring and advocacy, recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all.
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From page 22...
... "We need targeted sponsorship programs that identify individuals as future leaders and target unique and empower­ing support to them," he said, citing Harvard's Commonwealth Fund Fellow­ship program in Minority Health Policy as an example.2 He con­tinued, "We are also learning as a community that mentorship does not mean color-blind mentorship. It means targeted, unique strategies 2 For more information, see https://cff.hms.harvard.edu/.
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... Barabino about having a system that recognizes microaggressions and provides remediation. A few years ago, he said, Harvard recognized that medical students, especially in the surgical subspecialties, were suffering mistreatment in many areas, including related to racism.
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... Dr. Hogan asked about mentorship in scientific environments outside of hospitals and other medical settings.
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... 2015. Socializing African American female engineers into aca demic careers: The case of the cross-disciplinary initiative for minority women f­ aculty.
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