University Of Massachusetts Amherst Announces 2023 Stride Faculty Fellows Announced
Wilmore Webley, senior vice provost for equity and inclusion, is pleased to welcome a cohort of 32 faculty members to the STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program, aimed at advancing faculty diversity and retention at UMass Amherst.
This fellowship program is designed to ensure that the STRIDE Faculty Recruitment Workshops continue to be faculty centered and faculty driven, examining challenges of recruitment and retention on the UMass Amherst campus. Fellows have a one-year appointment with the goal of continued engagement either through STRIDE or other recruitment initiatives developed during the fellowship year.
The STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Equity and Inclusion, complements other efforts to support faculty diversity, harnessing the collective knowledge and experience of university faculty to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in recruitment and retention. This year, the STRIDE program adds a new training for department and college personnel committees, Strategies and Tactics for Retention through Inclusive Promotion Evaluation (STRIPE). This training is modeled after the Texas A&M STRIPE training and a subset of this year’s fellows will be specifically trained to administer this training to personnel committee members who volunteer to be certified.
2023 STRIDE Faculty Fellows:
Steve Acquah – associate research professor, chemistry; Digital Media Lab coordinator, W.E.B. Du Bois Library
Lynn Adler – professor, biology
Lara Al-Hariri – senior lecturer II, chemistry
Ivon Arroyo – associate professor, teacher education and curriculum studies
Theresa Austin – professor, teacher education and curriculum studies
Michael Becker – associate professor, linguistics
Terrie Black – clinical associate professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Elizabeth Brabec – professor, landscape architecture and regional planning
Soonkyu Chung – associate professor, nutrition
Carey Clouse – associate professor, architecture and landscape architecture
Justin Coles – assistant professor, social justice education and director of arts, culture and political engagements at the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research
Isabel Espinal – research services librarian for Afro American Studies, Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Studies, Native American & Indigenous Studies, and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Laura Francis – senior lecturer, biology
Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji – associate professor, economics
Sanjiv Gupta – associate professor, sociology
Christiane Healey – senior lecturer, biology
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen – associate professor, music and dance
Ken Kleinman – professor, biostatistics
Lisa Komoroske – assistant professor, environmental conservation
Jacquie Kurland – associate professor, speech, language, and hearing sciences
Joshua Michal – associate professor, music and dance
Sindiso MnisiWeeks – assistant professor, political science
Magda Oiry – senior lecturer, linguistics
Shelly Peyton – Provost Professor, chemical engineering
Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar – associate professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Timothy Randhir – professor, environmental conservation
Matthew Rattigan – senior teaching faculty, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Cheryl Swanier – senior teaching faculty, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Jay Taneja – assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering
Neena Thota – senior teaching faculty, Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Garrett Washington – associate professor, history
Kelsey Whipple – assistant professor, journalism