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Umaine Study Explores Diversity And Equity Practices In Higher Education Faculty Searches, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications Mar 2022

Umaine Study Explores Diversity And Equity Practices In Higher Education Faculty Searches, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Screenshot of University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications UMaine News webpage regarding a recent journal article from two University of Maine researchers suggests that despite good intentions, implicit and overt bias, as well as institutional and structural barriers, may still hamper colleges’ and universities’ efforts to diversify their faculty ranks. The study’s authors were associate professor of higher education Leah Hakkola and doctoral student in higher education Sarah Dyer.


Interrupting Bias In Army Talent Management, Danielle Holt, Susan Davis Mar 2022

Interrupting Bias In Army Talent Management, Danielle Holt, Susan Davis

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

To meet future threats, US Army talent management modernization must include the development of a more innovative and inclusive culture. Unconscious bias within assignment and evaluation processes is a potential threat and an opportunity for enhanced meritocracy. Assessments should move toward the identification of desired knowledge, skills, and behaviors and the evaluation of potential using relational analytics, and talent management must foster the selection of leaders who demonstrate competencies of confident humility and mental agility to generate organizational psychological safety. Only by leveraging the complete scope of diversity through an inclusive culture will the Army prevail in the cognitive dimension.


Ums Transforms: Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Event Update, Samantha Toner Sep 2021

Ums Transforms: Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Event Update, Samantha Toner

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

On April 23, 2021, over 400 members of the University of Maine System (UMS) community gathered virtually to discuss barriers and potential ways to remove those barriers in order to provide diversity, equity, and inclusion within UMS.


Maine Business School Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Webpage, University Of Maine Maine Business School Jul 2021

Maine Business School Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Webpage, University Of Maine Maine Business School

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Screenshot of the Maine Business School's featuring information relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion.


Ums Transforms: Advancing Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion, Samantha Toner Apr 2021

Ums Transforms: Advancing Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion, Samantha Toner

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Meeting agenda for the virtual UMS TRANSFORMS online discussion. Panelists included Kitty Armstrong, William Johnson, Darren Ranco, Krystal William, and Jenny Wriggins.


Ums Transforms: Overview, Samantha Toner Apr 2021

Ums Transforms: Overview, Samantha Toner

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The University of Maine System's UMS TRANSFORMS initiative targets four areas of the academic institution on which to focus efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion primarily impacting students, student athletes, and faculty: UMS-wide student success and retention; The Maine College of Engineering, Computing and Information Science; The Maine Graduate and Professional Center; Division I Athletic Facilities at the University of Maine.