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Saturday, October 14
Eveylynn Hammonds, Harvard
Toward Fair Cures: Integrating
the Benefits of Diversity in California's
Stem Cell Research Program
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Saturday, October 20, 9:00am-6:00pm
Toll Room, Alumni House
Celebrating the Institute for the
Study of Social Change: Thirty Years
of Research with a Conscience
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Mission |
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The Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI) focuses on racial and ethnic diversity, supporting research into the nature of multi-cultural societies and the ways in which such societies - at the local, state, national, and international levels - might flourish. One major goal is to generate a more nuanced understanding of similarities and differences among multi-cultural societies and an identification of factors that contribute to their success. Another goal is to generate specific prescriptions for changes in policy and practice that are likely to draw upon the strengths and assets of a diverse community and reduce ethnic/racial disparities that are of concern to the State of California and the nation. Focus areas might include: health care, education, career opportunities, business opportunities, information access, justice within the courts system, housing, environmental justice, upward mobility, economic well-being, political representation, civil rights and so on. We anticipate that BDRI will generate research that draws upon a broad range of disciplines on the UC Berkeley campus.
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Chancellor Birgeneau Announces Selection of Three Diversity-Research Initiatives to Receive New FTEs Marking the culmination of a two-year effort, Chancellor Birgeneau announced the selection of three projects with two FTE allocations each, from among a wide field of finalists, for funding under the new Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI). The selected projects focus on racial inequities in urban public schools, the root causes of health disparities among diverse populations, and diversity and democracy. All proposals were exciting and it is hoped that proposing departments will submit requests through regular departmental channels or resubmit in the next round, to be scheduled after the first round of FTEs have been hired. |
- Diversity and Democracy Cluster:
Irene Bloemraad (Sociology);
Christopher Edley and Christopher Kutz (Boalt Hall School of Law);
Taeku Lee (Political Science);
Samuel Scheffler (Philosophy and Law). Other supporting faculty: School of Law: Kathryn Abrams, David Lieberman, Goodwin Liu, Ian Haney
Lopez, Rachel Moran, Eric Rakowski, Jonathan Simon, Leti Volpp.
Department of Philosophy: Janet Broughton, Hannah Ginsborg, Niko Kolodny, R.
Jay Wallace.
Department of Political Science: Wendy Brown, Bruce Cain, Pradeep Chhibber,
Jack Citrin, Laura Stoker, Jason Wittenberg.
Department of Sociology: Claude Fischer, Mike Hout, Jerome Karabel, John Lie,
Sam Lucas, Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, Sandra Smith, Kim Voss, and Loic
Wacquant, Margaret Weir.
The central focus is the question of how liberal democratic principles and practices
adapt to an increasingly diverse population. The questions of citizenship and membership that
flow from this agenda are both descriptive and normative, and touch on the formation and
fragmentation of personal and communal identities by which "we" and "they" are created, the
disputes about the categorization of groups and the allocation of rights and benefits to such
groups (based on race, ethnicity, religion, national origin or legal status), and the participation of
all individuals and groups in civic and political life. These questions demand the
interdisciplinary efforts of philosophers, social scientists, and legal scholars. They also require
the talents of new faculty of the first-rank.
Specifically, this proposal makes a compelling case for Berkeley's
recruitment of faculty who will collectively cover the following five areas: (1) the normative question of
whether liberal democracy or alternative political theories can accommodate diversity and
difference; (2) the legal frameworks within which questions of citizenship, rights, and
representation are negotiated; (3) the social and political processes by which identities are
formed and reconfigured; (4) the involvement of diverse communities in pluralist and
contentious politics; (5) the incorporation of diverse communities in local and transnational civil
society. These five areas, taken together, present a coherent and coordinated
approach to tackling the scholarly and pedagogical challenges and opportunities posed by the
pluralistic times in which we live.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster :
Steven Shortell and
Denise Herd (School of Public Health) This proposal spans the biological and life sciences, social sciences, and the professional schools. It specifically involves the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the School of Social Welfare, the Anthropology Department, in addition to the School of Public Health.
This proposal asks for a cluster hire of several faculty positions to pursue a broad-based program of teaching
and research on health disparities and the social determinants of health. The positions will include faculty
with expertise in areas salient to socioeconomic, racial and ethnic disparities in health, including Health, social inequalities, and medical human rights; Neighborhoods and the social ecology of health disparities; Community-based interventions to
eliminate health disparities; and Public policy and health disparities. In pursuit of these research
objectives, the initiative will establish or expand upon active collaborations with the Helen Wills
Neuroscience Institute, the Department of Anthropology, the School of Environmental Design, the School
of Social Welfare, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and potentially the Department of Sociology.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Educational Policy Collaboration Research Approach:
Christopher Knaus and Stephen Small (African American Studies);
Christopher Edley (Boalt Hall School of Law);
Michael Omi (Ethnic Studies);
Norton Grubb (Graduate School of Education); and
David Pearson (Graduate School of Education).
The goal is to create new full-time faculty positions focusing on racial inequities in urban public
schools. While the background of the faculty members hired for these positions will be
strongly rooted in K-12 educational policy, each will concentrate his or her research on one or more of three
closely related areas: (1) K-12 Policy and School Reform Related to Educational Inequality; (2) K-12
Student Context, Community Collaboration and Policy Impacts; and (3) Immigrant Context of Poverty
and Social Mobility. These research agendas will be distinctive in two important respects. First, wherever appropriate they will
actively engage communities of color in research design, implementation, methodology and related
dissemination. Second, they will address the intersections of educational policy, racial inequities, and
immigration policy, particularly as they impact the state of California. We believe it is possible to foster
rigorous creative scholarship that engages the perspectives and experiences of students of color and their
families, along with a wide variety of campus and community advocates, scholars, and legal analysts.
Relatedly, when research projects are completed, we believe it is critical to make special efforts to deliver
the resulting intellectual capital in useful forms to those same communities and audiences, thereby
enriching policy discourse. The faculty positions that we propose will not only help to support and guide
campus diversity-related research centers and academic departments, they will also inject the all too
frequently absent voices of communities of color into local, state, and federal education policy
discussions.
Download proposal (pdf).
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Faculty FTE Proposal Process
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The process of realizing the BDRI vision was based upon the solicitation of proposals from faculty members and academic units throughout the campus with an initial focus on new faculty FTE. This document presents the process used for allocating up to 10 faculty FTE in support of the Diversity Research Initiative over a multiyear period. Proposals for individual FTE or FTE clusters were considered. The FTE allocated will be assigned to existing academic departments, but would "float" above departmental unit target sizes. The ultimate goal is for the new faculty to collaborate with existing faculty across a wide range of disciplines on the campus and to develop research themes that would grow, flourish, and eventually mature into research and instructional programs. There may be many modalities for reaching this goal, including, for example, the establishment of a multidisciplinary Graduate Group or participation in current research centers or emerging research centers.
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Pre-Proposal Process
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The second step in the BDRI process is a pre-proposal review. Interested faculty are invited to submit a relatively brief (4-5 page) statement of the area in which the campus can benefit from new faculty FTE, the kinds of research complementarities such FTE would foster, the roles the proposers themselves expect to play in the research enterprise, and commitments of support from the likely home department(s) of the proposed FTE. The pre-proposal is due by February 7, 2006.
The BDRI Committee will evaluate these pre-proposals and recommend to the Chancellor and the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost (EVCP) which ones should be invited to submit a full proposal. The final decision will be announced on March 7, 2006. Until the pre-proposals have been examined, it would be inappropriate to declare in advance that the result of the competition will be the allocation of one FTE in each of 6-10 areas or the allocation of 4 FTE in each of 2-3 areas (or some other variant). The BDRI Committee may discover complementarities and likely synergies among the pre-proposals and invite proposers to work together on constructing a full proposal. The BDRI Committee may wish to invite a subset of those who submitted pre-proposals to give oral presentations at which the Committee can probe further the likely payoff from the proposed research and FTE.
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Pre-Proposals Selected
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The BDRI Steeering Committee read the pre-proposals carefully and, after extensive discussion concerning alignment to the BDRI objectives and review criteria, invited authors of 10 of 21 pre-proposals to submit full proposals. The titles and contacts for these 10 pre-proposals are:
- Race, Health, Disease, Genomics, Environmental Justice, Human Rights: Rosemary A Joyce, Charles Briggs, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Anthropology);
Michael Omi (Ethnic Studies);
Michael Watts (Geography); and
Charis Thompson (Center for Science, Technology and Society; also Rhetoric and Women's Studies)
- Educational Policy Collaboration Research Approach:
Christopher Knaus, Stephen Small (African American Studies);
Christopher Edley (Boalt Hall School of Law);
Michael Omi (Ethnic Studies);
Norton Grubb (Graduate School of Education); and
David Pearson (Graduate School of Education)
- Center for Achievement and Leadership in a Diverse Society:
Laura Kray
(Haas School of Business); plus faculty who specialize in conflict resolution, conformity and dissent, culture, power and status and stereotypes (Business and Psychology)
- Diversity and Democracy Cluster:
Pradeep Chhibber (Political Science);
Kim Voss (Sociology);
and
Christopher Edley (Boalt Hall School of Law)
- Cultural Diversity and the Environment:
Carolyn Merchant and Nicholas Mills (ESPM, Division of Society and Environment); plus collaboration with Law, Public Health, and American Cultures
- Warren Institute
Research on Economic, Racial and Ethnic Diversity:
David Card (Economics);
Christopher Edley (Boalt Hall School of Law);
Jonathan Leonard (Haas School of Business); and
John Quigley (Goldman School of Public Policy)
- Enhancing Mathematics and Science Education for All Students:
Alan Schoenfeld (Graduate School of Education);
Mark Richards and Colette Patt (Physical Sciences);
David Pearson (Graduate School of Education) plus endorsements from the College of Chemistry, College of Engineering, College of Natural Resources, Division of Biological Sciences and Lawrence Hall of Science
- Immigration and Diaspora/Comparative Multiculturalisms:
John Lie (International and Area Studies) plus faculty in a number of other departments
- Neighborhoods and Health Disparities/Community-Based Interventions and Health Disparities/ Health-related Behavior and Delivery of Services
Steven Shortell (School of Public Health) and collaboration with a number of other departments
- Theoretical Framework of Values for a Just and Multicultural Society:
Janet Broughton, Hannah Ginsborg,
Niko Kolodny,
Samuel Scheffler, and R. Jay Wallace (Philosophy);
Christopher Kutz and
Jonathan Simon (Boalt School of Law)
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Full Proposal Process
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The third step in the BDRI process is the solicitation of full proposals from a subset of the faculty who submitted pre-proposals. Faculty who have been chosen to develop a full proposal for the BDRI will be asked to submit it by April 24, 2006. Proposals will be reviewed by "Blue Ribbon" panel of external reviewers. Based on those reviews, the BDRI Committee will recommend to the EVCP and the Budget Committee the FTE requests to be supported.
The full proposal should take the following form, and will be judged on the basis of the criteria noted below.
Title Page (1 page): Provide title of FTE or FTE cluster theme area, along with collaborating departments and supporting faculty.
- Summary (1 page): Summarize key features of the proposal, including compelling benefits to the campus and support for the goals of the BDRI.
- Narrative (no more than 5 pages for single FTE requests; 10 pages for cluster requests): This should be a succinct narrative detailing the proposed FTE or FTE cluster, and describing the thrust of the theme area and its specific focus. In addition to a description of the intellectual content, the narrative must include: the number of FTE requested, the proposed areas of expertise for these faculty, the structure of the associated research program, justification that the collaboration will be greater than the sum of its parts, the space identified for the initiative, and any other concrete details that are important to understanding the exact nature of the proposal. The narrative should address the merits of the proposal relative to the review criteria below.
- Review Criteria: (1) Is the research area of sufficient depth so that faculty would be able to pursue a vibrant research program and provide the foundation for successful advancement? (2) Is there sufficient support of current faculty or departments to pursue this area, complement new faculty, and sustain this intellectual program? (3) Does the proposed theme leverage the current strengths of the campus without duplicating existing faculty strengths? Will it be synergistic across several existing units? (4) Does the proposed research have the potential to leverage extramural funds? (5) What University resources (space, start-up packages, S&E) are needed to help jump-start the research program? How will these be leveraged by departmental or college resources? (6) Does the proposed research have demonstrable and articulated relevance to solving the diversity challenges of the State of California, such as increasing the number of underrepresented ethnic students and faculty in the University of California system, improving California's capacity to reduce disparities within its multiethnic and multiracial society, etc.? (7) In what ways might the faculty hired into this position provide leadership (both intellectual and organizational) in mentoring and curriculum development for the BDRI, and in turning research findings into published scholarly work and practicable recommendations for public policy and practice? These criteria are not necessarily exhaustive; nor must every proposed FTE meet every criterion. But these are criteria that might be invoked in differentiating among proposals and candidates; different reviewers, of course, might "weight" the respective criteria differently.
- Supporting Documentation: Short CV's for up to five current core faculty (2 page max per); a list of supporting faculty and the roles they are committed to playing in leadership and in the research enterprise.
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Final Proposals Submitted
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Eight full proposals, requesting a total of 29 faculty slots, were submitted. As noted below, several of the Pre-Proposals merged into others. The titles, contacts and pdf files for these 8 full proposals are:
- Research on Economic, Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity:
David Card (Economics);
Christopher Edley (Boalt Hall School of Law);
Jonathan Leonard (Haas School of Business); and
John Quigley (Goldman School of Public Policy). Based on pre-proposal #6.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Global Diversity: Multicultural California in Comparative & Transnational Perspective ;
John Lie (International and Area Studies);
Michael Lucey (French and Comparative Literature);
Aihwa Ong (Socio-Cultural House and Anthropology);
Ananya Roy (International and Area Studies and City & Regional Planning);
Charis Thompson (Center for Science, Technology and Society; also Rhetoric and Women's Studies). Proposal merged parts of pre-proposals #1 and #8.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Leadership and Achievement in a Diverse Society:
Jennifer Chatman, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and Laura Kray
(Haas School of Business);
Dacher Keltner and
Kaiping Peng (Psychology). Additional supporting faculty: Cameron Anderson, Barry Staw (Haas School of Business);
Ozlem Ayduk, Serena Chen, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Charlan Nemeth, Sheldon Zedeck
(Psychology). Proposal merged parts of pre-proposals #3 and #10.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Enhancing Mathematics and Science Education for All Students:
Alan Schoenfeld and
P. David Pearson (Graduate School of Education);
Mark Richards and Colette Patt (Physical Sciences); Elizabeth Stage (Lawrence Hall of Science);
Rhona Weinstein (Clinical Science Program and Psychology Clinic). Based on pre-proposal #7.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Diversity and Democracy Cluster:
Irene Bloemraad (Sociology);
Christopher Edley and Christopher Kutz (Boalt Hall School of Law);
Taeku Lee (Political Science);
Samuel Scheffler (Philosophy and Law). Other supporting faculty: School of Law: Kathryn Abrams, David Lieberman, Goodwin Liu, Ian Haney
Lopez, Rachel Moran, Eric Rakowski, Jonathan Simon, Leti Volpp.
Department of Philosophy: Janet Broughton, Hannah Ginsborg, Niko Kolodny, R.
Jay Wallace.
Department of Political Science: Wendy Brown, Bruce Cain, Pradeep Chhibber,
Jack Citrin, Laura Stoker, Jason Wittenberg.
Department of Sociology: Claude Fischer, Mike Hout, Jerome Karabel, John Lie,
Sam Lucas, Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, Sandra Smith, Kim Voss, and Loic
Wacquant, Margaret Weir. Based on pre-proposal #4.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Educational Policy Collaboration Research Approach:
Christopher Knaus and Stephen Small (African American Studies);
Christopher Edley (Boalt Hall School of Law);
Michael Omi (Ethnic Studies);
Norton Grubb (Graduate School of Education); and
David Pearson (Graduate School of Education). Based on pre-proposal #2.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Cultural Diversity and the Environment:
Dara O'Rourke,
Kate O'Neill, and Jeffrey Romm (ESPM, Division of Society and Environment, College of Natrual Resources);
Angela Harris (Boalt School of Law);
Denise Herd (School of Public Health). Other collaborating faculty are from Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Boalt School of Law, School of Public Health, Center for American Cultures and Ethnic Studies. Submitted by: Carolyn Merchant and Nicholas Mills (College of Natural Resources).
Proposal based on pre-proposal #5.
Download proposal (pdf).
- Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster :
Steven Shortell and
Denise Herd (School of Public Health) This proposal spans the biological and life sciences, social sciences, and the professional schools. It specifically involves the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the School of Social Welfare, the Anthropology Department, in addition to the School of Public Health.
Proposal merged parts of pre-proposals #1 and #9.
Download proposal (pdf).
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Search Process
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The BDRI will draw from previous successful multi-departmental search models in which a multi-departmental search committee is charged with composing the advertisement, vetting the applications, and deciding upon the short list of candidates to be called for interviews. As is the case now, the Budget Committee recommends to the EVCP the number of FTE to be searched for in any given year for each new initiative. The group supporting the particular BDIR FTE will be asked to make a proposal for the FTE in the normal cycle, except for the first year in which off-cycle requests will likely be necessary. The supporting faculty will propose to the BDIR the search committee and the position description. These proposals will be forwarded to the Vice-Provost for Academic Planning and Facilities. The position descriptions will go through the normal approval process.
Once the search is approved, we anticipate a process roughly as follows: The candidates will be expected to give job talks within the departments that they consider their likely units of appointment, although interested faculty from other departments, as well as the members of the multi-departmental search committee will be expected to attend the job talks as well. Departments will then vote as to whether they would be interested in appointing the individual(s) who had given job talks in the department. Once the multi-departmental search committee identifies the candidates who are acceptable to the relevant department(s), the search committee will rank these candidates and propose to the relevant dean(s) that the top-ranked candidate be offered the position. Once consensus is reached, the appointing department or departments (in the event of a joint appointment) will write up the case for appointment and send it to their cognizant dean(s) to follow the standard faculty appointment process, including Budget Committee review.
The BDRI Committee will be charged with recommending to the Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Facilities the membership of the multi-departmental search committees that will initiate each search. Additional nominations could be provided by the Academic Senate, upon request. The membership of those committees will vary, depending on the area of the search in any given year.
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Schedule and Contacts
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| Dec. 6, 2005 | Town Hall Meeting, 4:00-5:00 p.m. (775 AB Tan Hall) |
| Feb. 7, 2006 | Pre-proposals due |
| March 7, 2006 | Pre-proposals approved |
| April 24, 2006 | Full proposals due (Note: the date has been extended) |
| May 23, 2006 | Presentations by PIs/proposal teams to
Blue Ribbon Committee. |
| August, 2006 | Final awards selected and participating departments
invited
to submit off-cycle FTE requests.
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| TBD | Second round of FTE requests issued after first round hires are completed.
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Should you have any questions, contact Sarah Nathe at the above email address or
at (510) 642-6414.
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