The Doctoral Chat. February Director s Chair. Pay It Forward Campaign

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1 Doctoral Scholars Program The Doctoral Chat February 2015 Director s Chair Happy New Year! We sicerely hope that you, all of our scholars, ad the rest of our SREB Doctoral Scholars Program family had a safe ad refreshig trasitio ito We wish othig but success to each ad every oe of you i this ew year. I wat to take the opportuity to recogize all of the recet Ph.D. graduates. Your hard work ad perseverace paid off! You did it, ad I am proud of each of you. e Doctoral Scholars Program has see 744 doctoral scholars graduate sice the program bega i Cogratulatios to all of you! As you move ito your careers, please keep i touch ad update the DSP Staff o your progress. As you receive promotios, publish research ad books, ad chage the face of the professoriate, keep us iformed. We are always lookig for opportuities to brag o you; so sed us a quick or call to let us kow about your edeavors. Ad always feel free to just say, Hi. Also, do ot forget to regularly update your Scholar Directory profile, so istitutios ca cotact ad recruit you. We have almost 100 istitutios that subscribe to the directory with the sole purpose of recruitig exceptioal Ph.Ds. like you. So be sure to keep your cotact ad employmet iformatio (cotiued o ext page) Pay It Forward Campaig I early December, may of you received a iformig you of our ew campaig to raise moey for our Professioal Developmet Fud. is year s campaig is called: Pay It Forward. is program exists, because our parter fuders felt the eed to help others. We wat to exted to you the opportuity to do the same ad give you a chace to give back to your fellow scholars who curretly eed your help. We urge program graduates to pledge $ each year or ask they give whatever they are able. Please Give Today! To lear more about the Pay It Forward Campaig, ad how you ca help, click here ( cotributios.html).

2 (cotiued from page 1) curret. You ca do this here: sreb.org. DSP is curretly acceptig applicatios for the fellowship! Applicatios are due to our office by March 31, You are our greatest recruiters, so be sure to share your experieces with our program with others. I am excited to aouce a couple of upcomig developmets! First, we wat to cotiue to promote our four ew parterships: Chroicle Vitae, Higher Educatio Recruitmet Cosortium (HERC), Iside Higher Ed ad the Natioal Ceter for Faculty Developmet ad Diversity. Fid out how these parters ca exted your Istitute beefits, later i this ewsletter. Miority Faculty Recruitig ad Retetio: e Good, Bad, ad Ugly, the webiar is listed i the SREB happeigs sectio of this ewsletter. We are also cotiuig to wide our social media presece to discuss diversifyig our atio s faculty. We are hostig a Twitter Chat o faculty diversity i higher educatio. Details o how to participate are covered i the SREB Happeigs sectio of the ewsletter. Have a great semester! I look forward to hearig from you soo ad seeig you at the Istitute o Teachig ad Metorig i Arligto, Virgiia, from October 29-November 1, 2015! Also, I will be hostig a webiar for HERC o recruitig miority faculty best practices. Etitled Highlights from the 21st Aual Istitute Last year s 21st Istitute o Teachig ad Metorig, the largest gatherig of miority doctoral graduates i the atio, boasted the largest umber of attedees, recruiters ad cocurret sessios i its history. Highlights icluded curriculum vitae review sessios, ad sessios that promoted teachig ad metorig. If you atteded last year s Istitute, you helped us celebrate two ifluetial parters to the SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program. is year, the Istitute awarded Pearl Peigto, director of the Mississippi Higher Educatio Opportuity Edowmet, with the Extra Mile Award for her decades of service to Mississippi scholars ad the SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program. It also hoored the Alfred P. Sloa Foudatio for its 15 years of partership with the SREB-State Doctoral Program. Its cotributios to our program ad its scholars participatio i the Istitute have truly eriched us all. Extra Mile Award Istitute Graduates Sloa Special Award Metors of the Year 2

3 2014 Istitute By the Numbers 269 istitutios 45 states (ad Puerto Rico) 77 graduates recogized 75 istitutios at recruitmet fair 200 recruiters Geder: male 40%; female 60% 103 disciplies represeted Attedees at the 2014 Istitute o Teachig ad Metorig i Atlata, Georgia. Be sure to take a look at the preseter sessio hadouts; they all have some tips ad resources that you will fid useful i the ew year. If you are iterested i submittig Istitute proposals ad requests you ca do so here ( org/sessioproposalsadrequests/). If you were ot able to atted last year s Istitute, we missed you! Take a look at our social media coverage of the evet at Storify. ( utm_source=t.co&utm_cotet=storify-piback&awesm= sfy.co_bxcw&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&utm_campaig=) Istitute graduates were also featured o Iside Higher Ed! Check it Out: Missig Miority Ph.D.s ( Recruiters at the 2014 Istitute. Save the Date e 2015 Istitute o Teachig ad Metorig i Arligto, VA! is year we will be i Arligto, Virgia at the Marriott Crystal Gateway from October 29- November 1st. All curret SREB Doctoral Program scholars are required to atted three Istitutes; dissertatio scholars are required to atted the year they are fuded by us. If you kow of ay colleagues or classmates that have fudig ad would beefit from the Istitute, cotact the SREB DSP office. Visit here ( for more iformatio about the Istitute. 3

4 e Other 361 Days: New SREB Parterships! e Doctoral Scholars Program has etered ito four parterships that are meat to exted the impact of the Istitute throughout the year ad provide access to additioal resources. We are lookig to provide motivatio, ispiratio, professioal developmet, ad etworkig. We would like to itroduce you to our ew parters, ad the valuable resources they provide. We hope these parters will cotiue to provide you with a program that is more tha a check ad a hadshake. Chroicle Vitae Vitae is the fast-growig commuity i higher educatio specifically desiged to help graduate studets, faculty ad admiistrators achieve success at every stage of their careers. Vitae offers etworkig ad coectios, free career maagemet tools, a comprehesive jobs database, ad daily advice ad ews writte by scholars. Here is what a profile with Vitae offers you: Coect with colleagues, metors, ad collaborators from more tha a 1,000 istitutios. Build a customizable public profile to showcase your achievemets ad to stad out from the crowd. Search comprehesive job listigs, save job searches ad receive job alerts. Use Vitae s free dossier service to store your curriculum vitae ad professioal documets i oe place. Use Vitae to quickly apply to jobs at hudreds of istitutios. Receive the Vitae Advice & News Digest delivered weekly to your ibox. Also, be sure to dowload Vitae s free guidebook: e Quick ad Relatively Pailess Guide to Your Academic Job Search. ( Higher Educatio Recruitmet Cosortium (HERC) e Higher Educatio Recruitmet Cosortium is a group of over 600 colleges ad uiversities that seeks to hire the most taleted ad diverse jobseekers at their campuses. At ay give time, the HERC website ( has over 20,000 jobs, icludig faculty ad research positios i all academic disciplies. HERC offers webiars for jobseekers, ( idex.html) a jobseeker blog ( with career developmet advice, ad a highly iformative daily brief for jobseekers. ( www2.smart-brief.com/sigupsystem/subscribe.actio?pagesequece=1&briefname= herc&campaig=web-sitersswidget) 4

5 New SREB Parterships! (cotiued) HERC is also a resource for dual-career couples seekig jobs withi a commutable distace. Check out the dual search ( if you ad your parter are both o the job market. All of HERC s jobseeker tools are free for scholars ad Istitute attedees. Create a accout ( today to stay up-to-date o higher educatio careers i your field by receivig alerts ad havig your resume searchable by recruiters at HERC member campuses. Iside Higher Educatio e Doctoral Scholars Program ad Iside Higher Ed are brigig scholars ad Istitute attedees the publicatio: e Doctoral Scholar Isider. Below are the two core purposes of this collaboratio: 1. Exted the Istitute o Teachig ad Metorig to serve scholars year-roud with resources to help them succeed as uiversity faculty, icludig blog postigs ad frequet job listigs. 2. Coect miority doctoral studets ad ew faculty with relevat professioal developmet webiars, workshops, articles ad job listigs that help them better uderstad their career optios ad the academic workplace. ese activities will support the missio of the Doctoral Scholars Program to diversify the profes sor ate. If you are iterested i potetially creatig a blog post or if you have ay specific questios regardig this resource, sed a to [email protected]. Natioal Ceter for Faculty Developmet ad Diversity e Natioal Ceter for Faculty Developmet ad Diversity (NCFDD) is a idepedet professioal developmet, traiig ad metorig commuity of over 71,000 graduate studets, post-doctoral fellows ad faculty members. ey are fully dedicated to supportig academic professioals i makig successful trasitios throughout their careers. NCFDD offers o campus workshops, professioal developmet traiig ad itesive metorig programs. To lear more visit For those who atteded the Istitute, NCFDD is offerig a free oe-year membership to the Ceter! is icludes the weekly Moday Motivator , access to professioal developmet sessios, multi-week courses, its discussio forum, access to past webiars, access to job opeigs ad resource/cotact lists. 5

6 Our missio is to iform, elighte ad ispire you through relevat ad useful iformatio to prepare you for a successful future. Importat igs for Curret Scholars to Remember Scholar Resposibilities Notify the Doctoral Scholars Program immediately regardig ay chage i cotact iformatio, erollmet, employmet or academic status. Tammy Wright at [email protected]. Sed i a grade report or dissertatio progress report each semester to Tammy Wright. Maitai full-time erollmet for ALL semesters while beig actively fuded. Atted the aual Istitute o Teachig ad Metorig each fall. If you have ay questios, Chaell Turer at [email protected]. Get your Ph.D. ad joi the professoriate! Other Guidelies You MUST advise SREB if you are ot a full-time studet. Also otify SREB if you are doig a audit, idepedet study or research hours. You MUST NOT be employed uder ay circumstaces outside of the departmet, part time or full time, without otifyig SREB. Ay employmet i the departmet must be reported ad approved. You MUST report ay additioal fuds eared while receivig program support, icludig scholarships, fellowships, assistatships, grats or other moies, regardless of whe you receive the fuds. Grades ad Dissertatio Updates is is just a remider that grades are due each term. Oly two requests for grades ad dissertatio updates will be set before stipeds are withheld. Grades should be ed each term. Grades should iclude your term GPA ad overall GPA. If you take research hours or dissertatio hours that are pass/fail, you must sed a short arrative. Dissertatio scholars should submit a short arrative outliig your progress this term ad plas for the ext term. Ay hardships, breakthroughs ad presetatios that are oteworthy also should be icluded. Please iclude your aticipated fial defese date i your arrative. Remember that whe you defed your dissertatioad the committee sigs off, we cosider you a program graduate. We uderstad that sometimesthe committee will sig off eve with chages to bemade, but if you get the sigatures, we cosider you a completer. Please cotact SREB as soo as you defed or have a scheduled date. Cotactig us is very importat as we track your progress, ad it is very excitig for us to see the caledar covered with defese dates. Remember, Scholars: Update ad keep your olie Scholar Directory listig curret. To access the Scholar Directory, ad other great tools to help you o your jourey, go to ad click o the Doctoral Scholars lik uder Programs. Please report all of the above iformatio via to Tammy Wright, istitute coordiator, Scholar Services, at [email protected] or call her directly at (404)

7 Importat igs for Graduate Scholars to Remember Regularly update your Scholar Directory profile. We have over 100 istitutios subscribed to this directory that are lookig to recruit accomplished scholars for faculty positios. You ever kow where your ext opportuity will arise, so please keep all cotact, employmet ad CV iformatio curret ad up-to-date. Click o this lik to update your iformatio: if you have forgotte your password, call Chaell Turer at Use our Job Board to search for faculty ad post-doctoral positios by category, state ad istitutio. Begi your job search here: Do t forget to stay i touch ad iform us of the excitig thigs you do after graduatio. Chaell Turer at [email protected] with your life ad career updates so that we ca celebrate you. Cotiue to tell others of your experieces with DSP ad ecourage your peers to apply. Graduate ad Scholar News Dr. Oscar Holmes IV (SREB-State Doctoral Scholar) Ph.D., Maagemet (2013), e Uiversity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Today: Assistat Professor, Maagemet, Rutgers Uiversity, Camde, New Jersey Dr. Kimberly Adams (PA) was promoted to professor for the academic year at East Stroudsburg Uiversity. Dr. Vetria Byrd (GA) recetly spoke at the XSEDE14 coferece i Atlata, GA about the beefits of data visualizatio techologies. She recetly led a two-day workshop o the topic of broadeig female participatio i visualizatio, as well as a coalitio to diversify computig at Clemso Uiversity. Dr. Chris Corelius (NE) is oe of four ative america academics who received a $1.5 millio Natioal Sciece Foudatio grat to create a program to metor Native America studets i STEM fields. Read more about his ifluetial project here. ( Amaris del Carme Guzma (LA) Ph.D. cadidate, was recogized as a Uiversity Coucil for Educatioal Admiistratio Jackso Scholar. is program helps graduate studets of color take advatage of formal etworkig, metorig, ad professioal developmet opportuities. Julie Desmagles (SC) Ph.D. cadidate was featured i Clemso Uiversity s Newstad for her admissio to our program. She is a graduate assistat with the Leadership, Couselor Educatio, Huma ad Orgaizatioal Developmet Faculty at Clemso s Eugee T. Moore School of Educatio. Take a look at the article here. ( Maledie T. Gaies ad Marc Steves Jr. (TN) Ph.D. cadidates, were ackowledged by East Teessee State Uiversity o the Teessee Board of Regets website for their acceptace ito the Doctoral Scholars Program. Both are third-year doctoral cadidates 7 (cotiued o ext page)

8 Graduate ad Scholar News (cotiued) i public health, cocetratig i epidemiology. We welcome them ad all the other ew SREB Scholars! Have a look at their jourey leadig up to their etrace ito DSP. ( edu/ews/o-campus/gaies-steves-selectedsreb-state-doctoral-scholars-december ) Dr. Sula Hood (IN) just bega a teure-track faculty positio at Idiaa Uiversity-Purdue Uiversity Idiaapolis as a assistat professor i the Departmet of Social ad Behavioral Scieces. Dr. Michael Mejia (KY) developed a grat proposal to ivestigate metal health service cosumptio, attitudes, prefereces ad perceived barriers to use Telehealth services amog cacer survivors i rural Ketucky. He is ow coductig a pilot study ad is the pricipal ivestigator o the grat. Dr. Adele Norris (MN) authored ad published a fatasy childre s book titled, Jackso Nash: I the Preset ad Past, with her so Alozo Morris. Dr. Tommy B. Piggee (TN) is curretly completig a postdoctoral fellowship with the Quille College of Medicie at East Teessee State Uiversity. e fellowship is sposored by Dr. Keith Johso, courtesy of the DiverseETSU program. is coectio was made at the Istitute! Dr. Ket Smith (OH) recetly lauched a effort at Oklahoma State Uiversity to recruit more America Idia high school ad college studets ito medicie ad sciece careers at. is iitiative was featured i Diverse Issues i Higher Educatio. You ca view it here. ( Dr. Smith is also leadig the Native Explorers program, a project meat to expose America Idia studets to hads-o experiece i archaeology ad paleotology. Dr. Karsoya Whitehead (MD) received the Letitia Woods Brow Book Award for the Best Edited Book i Africa-America Wome s History from the Associatio of Black Wome Historias for her ew book, Notes from a Colored Girl: e Civil War Diaries of Emilie Fraces Davis. See Dr. Whitehead s summary of the accout of Emilie Fraces. ( youtube.com/watch?v=w6r5vhv0i-y) Ai Whitmore (GA) Ph.D. cadidate had her Master s thesis published by Iforma Healthcare. e emphasis is o early augmeted laguage itervetio for childre with developmetal delays ad potetial secodary motor outcomes. I Memoriam Mr. Alexader Ojeda (SC), joied the SREB Doctoral Scholars Program i July He was pursuig his Ph.D. i Cliical Psychology at the Uiversity of South Carolia. Durig his time at USC, Ojeda was a regioal coordiator for the Society for Commuity Research ad Actio ad a research assistat at the uiversity. I October 2014, Ojeda died from complicatios related to a heart coditio at the age of 27. We offer our codoleces to his family ad ackowledge his aspirig higher educatio cotributios to the psychology commuity. 8

9 Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Karsoya Whitehead Dr. Karsoya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is assistat professor of Commuicatio ad Africa America Studies at Loyola Uiversity, Marylad. She completed her Ph.D. i 2013 at the Uiversity of Marylad Baltimore Couty. What made you wat to pursue a Ph.D.? After havig worked as a documetary filmmaker ad televisio producer for 10 years ad as a school teacher for four years, I was fially ready to go back to school ad work o my doctoral degree. It was always a log-term goal for me, though I did ot kow how I was goig to accomplish it. I was a wife, a mother of two youg boys, ad I worked full time outside of the home. I was ot sure that I could balace the demads required by each of the areas. I realized after I tured 35 years old that if I did ot eter ito a Ph.D. program before I tured 40, I might ot ever have the chace to do it. What were some of the challeges you faced while workig o your Ph.D.? Durig my first year i the doctoral program, I was teachig five classes a day while also workig 10 hours a week as a research assistat. I had two boys uder seve years old, I was a full time studet ad was also a wife. e largest problem was tryig to fid a balace for all the parts of my life. It was probably the most difficult year of my program. I cried all of the time, because I was uable to fid a way to catch up. At the same time, I could ot coceive of a way to make it easier for myself, because I was uable to give aythig up. I was growig so much as a doctoral studet that I could ot imagie leavig the program, ad I eeded my job. I was determied to fid a way to make it work. What advice do you have for those who are startig out or who are ow i the middle of their doctoral program? My advice for studets who are just eterig their doctoral program is to work with their advisors ad start to decide what they wat to work o while they are i their programs. I always see the dissertatio as a steppig stoe to lift you up ito the field that you will essetially stad o for the ext 20 years. ik deeply about the work that you wat to do, ad the decide whether you ca do it for the ext 20 years. Cosider these questios: Does it hold your iterest? Are you excited about the work? Do you feel that you have somethig to say? Is this your vocatio or callig? If you are i the middle, make sure you are o the right track. is is the most excitig time i your life. You have people who are focused o helpig you to hoe your research; fid your voice i the field, ad fiish your program. Take advatage of it! Fid opportuities to publish, co-publish, co-preset ad atted cofereces as much as possible To hear more about Dr. Whitehead s doctoral experiece ad her advice for ew graduates, visit our mai page 9

10 SREB Happeigs ad Aoucemets HERC Webiar Dr. Abraham will host a webiar with HERC etitled, Miority Faculty Recruitig ad Retetio: e Good, Bad, ad Ugly. is webiar will be desiged for provosts, higher educatio huma resources professioals, ad chief diversity officers i charge of recruitig. Please sed Dr. Abraham examples of your experieces, both positive ad challegig, with recruitig, first- year orietatios ad metorig. It would be helpful for istitutios to hear from those affected by their efforts. Date: March 19, 2015 Time: 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PT Lik: SREB Doctoral Scholars Twitter Chat DSP ad its costituets will develop a Twitter chat to brig awareess to focus o a sigle issue impactig diversity i higher educatio, particularly those facig Ph.D. studets. If you are iterested i beig a part of this chat, [email protected] More iformatio will be set out i the ext few weeks Regioal Advisory Committee Meetig e DSP Regioal Advisory Committee members from SREB states ad participatig istitutios come together each year to discuss may educatio issues, icludig policy ad fudig, how they impact the program. is year s meetig was held i Atlata, Georgia o Jauary 29th. is is oe of the ways that the program cotiues to stregthe itself. Stay Coected! Be sure to like us o Facebook: SREB DSP ( SREB-State-Doctoral-Scholars-Program/ ?ref=bookmarks) ad follow us o ( for program remiders, job postigs, career resources, ad curret articles from some of the most ifluetial orgaizatios i higher educatio. Souther Regioal Educatio Board th St. N.W. Atlata, GA (404) SREB.org 10