With support from Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the ADVANCE Program, the Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program brings together faculty, staff, and students who individually and collectively advance their action, research, or teaching objectives while improving inclusivity on campus. This program is a bottom-up initiative, tapping into the creativity and diversity of thought among our campus community to crowdsource ideas that create long-term culture change.
Primary Responsibilities
- Cultivate a network of ambassadors who will advance a culture of inclusive excellence.
- Create an environment where people feel safe, comfortable, and empowered to discuss diversity and inclusion.
Benefits and Outcomes
- Personal and professional growth, with demonstrated commitment and skills, about diversity and inclusion knowledge and practice;
- Recognition as a Fellow;
- Outcomes will be commensurate with Fellows’ engagement and may include increased workplace diversity and inclusion; new collaborations, initiatives, or partnerships; and individual/joint courses or research proposals.
Fellow projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Developing recommendations and content for new Institutional training programs;
- Creating and executing a pilot educational program and submitting a new SPAG proposal to expand that pilot;
- Writing a white paper as the basis for an agency proposal, or writing the proposal itself;
- Collating best practices for increasing diversity or enhancing inclusion of a given campus group;
- Creating guidelines for diversity and inclusion training for new students, staff, and faculty (e.g., participating in New Faculty and Staff Orientation);
- Creating a mentoring program for incoming students, faculty, or staff, informing them about issues related to diversity and inclusion, encouraging them to get involved in diversity and inclusion-related activities; and
- Advising on diversity and inclusion initiatives in the classroom and staff meetings. For example, teaching faculty about preferred pronouns, visiting research labs, and leading a peer-to-peer dialogue with the students in the lab about diversity and inclusion-related issues.
Funding
Fellows can request funding to implement their projects (e.g. speaker honorarium, speaker travel, facility charges, supplies and materials, event support, etc.) to be spent according to the rules that dictate allowable uses of state funding.
Questions? Contact Terry Blum (terry.blum@ile.gatech.edu) or Martha Grover (martha.grover@chbe.gatech.edu).
Meet the Fellows
Program Activities
Initial ideas from the fellows include symposia, workshops, improv performances, surveys, mentorship programs, and journaling exercises focusing on the various dimensions and intersectionalities of diversity, including race, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, and disability.
Institute News
- Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program Seeks Fifth Cohort (April 19, 2021)
- Fourth Cohort Set for Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program (September 11, 2020)
- Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program Application Period Open to Select Fourth Cohort (April 20, 2020)
- Diversity, Inclusion Fellows Celebrate Second Cohort (November 26, 2018)
- Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program Application Period Opens to Select Third Cohort (October 1, 2018)
- First Cohort of Faculty, Staff, and Students Complete Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program (January 5, 2018)
- Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program Application Period Opens (October 4, 2017)
- Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program Launches to Crowdsource Ideas That Improve Campus Inclusivity (April 13, 2017)
- Apply to Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program (October 13, 2016)
