Stereotype Threat
Dr. Steven Stroessner, Professor of Psychology at
Barnard
College, utilized a CHAS faculty grant to develop a resource for
faculty, teachers, students, and the general public interested in
the phenomenon of stereotype threat:
www.reducingstereotypethreat.org
Advising Students
Estella Bensimon, director of the Center for Urban Education at the
University of Southern California and leader of the Equity Scorecard
Project authored an article on the role of advising in the success
of students of color: “The Underestimated Significance of
Practitioner Knowledge in the Scholarship of Student Success.”
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/AnnualConf/2008/documents/CommonReading-304bensimon.pdf.
Mentoring
Faculty
The Modern Language Association offers guidelines for the
recruitment, mentoring, and evaluation of junior faculty members of
color in: “Guidelines for Good Practice by the Committee on the
Literatures of People of Color in the US and Canada”
http://www.mla.org/rep_guidelines_poc
High
Achievement
Three papers commissioned by AACU as part of the Making Excellence
Inclusive initiative:
Inclusive Excellence PDF file
The
Teagle Foundation, in it’s 2006 working group white paper
“Eliminating Racial Disparities in College Completion and
Achievement: Current Ideas, New Ideas and Assessment”, offers a list
of best practices.
http://www.teaglefoundation.org/learning/pdf/2006_cornell_whitepaper.pdf.
The
Howard Hughes Medical Institute offers online resources for
educators in the sciences at: http://www.hhmi.org/resources/educators/
