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COVID-19 threatens faculty diversity: postdoctoral scholars call for action

Despite substantial investment and effort by federal agencies and institutions to improve the diversity of the professoriate, progress is excruciatingly slow. One program that aims to enhance faculty diversity is the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) funded by the...

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Autores principales: Andrade, Brenda, Medina-Munoz, Hugo C., Montaño, Elizabeth T., Roa, Jinae N., Sánchez, Richard G., Tat, John, Hurst, Samantha, Mouchka, Morgan E., Trejo, JoAnn, Ramirez, Monica L. Gonzalez
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: The American Society for Cell Biology 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9250390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35179995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E21-10-0507
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author Andrade, Brenda
Medina-Munoz, Hugo C.
Montaño, Elizabeth T.
Roa, Jinae N.
Sánchez, Richard G.
Tat, John
Hurst, Samantha
Mouchka, Morgan E.
Trejo, JoAnn
Ramirez, Monica L. Gonzalez
author_facet Andrade, Brenda
Medina-Munoz, Hugo C.
Montaño, Elizabeth T.
Roa, Jinae N.
Sánchez, Richard G.
Tat, John
Hurst, Samantha
Mouchka, Morgan E.
Trejo, JoAnn
Ramirez, Monica L. Gonzalez
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description Despite substantial investment and effort by federal agencies and institutions to improve the diversity of the professoriate, progress is excruciatingly slow. One program that aims to enhance faculty diversity is the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences. IRACDA supports the training of a diverse cohort of postdoctoral scholars who will seek academic research and teaching careers. The San Diego IRACDA program has trained 109 postdoctoral scholars since its inception in 2003; 59% are women and 63% are underrepresented (UR) Black/African-American, Latinx/Mexican-American, and Indigenous scientists. Sixty-four percent obtained tenure-track faculty positions, including a substantial 32% at research-intensive institutions. However, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis threatens to upend IRACDA efforts to improve faculty diversity, and academia is at risk of losing a generation of diverse, talented scholars. Here, a group of San Diego IRACDA postdoctoral scholars reflects on these issues and discusses recommendations to enhance the retention of UR scientists to avoid a “lost generation” of promising UR faculty scholars.
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spelling pubmed-92503902022-07-07 COVID-19 threatens faculty diversity: postdoctoral scholars call for action Andrade, Brenda Medina-Munoz, Hugo C. Montaño, Elizabeth T. Roa, Jinae N. Sánchez, Richard G. Tat, John Hurst, Samantha Mouchka, Morgan E. Trejo, JoAnn Ramirez, Monica L. Gonzalez Mol Biol Cell Voices Despite substantial investment and effort by federal agencies and institutions to improve the diversity of the professoriate, progress is excruciatingly slow. One program that aims to enhance faculty diversity is the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences. IRACDA supports the training of a diverse cohort of postdoctoral scholars who will seek academic research and teaching careers. The San Diego IRACDA program has trained 109 postdoctoral scholars since its inception in 2003; 59% are women and 63% are underrepresented (UR) Black/African-American, Latinx/Mexican-American, and Indigenous scientists. Sixty-four percent obtained tenure-track faculty positions, including a substantial 32% at research-intensive institutions. However, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis threatens to upend IRACDA efforts to improve faculty diversity, and academia is at risk of losing a generation of diverse, talented scholars. Here, a group of San Diego IRACDA postdoctoral scholars reflects on these issues and discusses recommendations to enhance the retention of UR scientists to avoid a “lost generation” of promising UR faculty scholars. The American Society for Cell Biology 2022-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9250390/ /pubmed/35179995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E21-10-0507 Text en © 2022 Andrade et al. “ASCB®,” “The American Society for Cell Biology®,” and “Molecular Biology of the Cell®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Creative Commons License.
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Sánchez, Richard G.
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Mouchka, Morgan E.
Trejo, JoAnn
Ramirez, Monica L. Gonzalez
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9250390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35179995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E21-10-0507
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