Tapping the Minority Talent Pool for Academic Chemistry

路易斯安那州立大学的Isiah Warner和哥伦比亚大学的Nicholas Turro得到了美国国家科学基金会化学部综合化学活动的支持，组织了一个关于“挖掘少数族裔人才库用于学术化学”的研讨会。研讨会将讨论(1)少数族裔在化学学院中代表性不足的现状；(2)招募少数族裔化学家担任教职的障碍和成功的战略；以及(3)吸引和留住美国院校化学系少数族裔教师的新方法。化学系少数族裔教师人数仍然很少，因此这是该学科非常感兴趣的一个话题--现有人才库的未充分利用。研讨会将提供证据，证明当学术化学教师反映美国的多样性时，研究和教学都会得到改善。研讨会被认为不仅在化学领域，而且在其他学科也有潜在的广泛影响。

Isiah Warner of Lousiana State University and Nicholas Turro of Columbia University are supported by the NSF Chemistry Division's Integrative Chemistry Activities to organize a workshop on "Tapping the Minority Talent Pool for Academic Chemistry." The workshop will consider (1) the current status of underrepresented minorities on chemistry faculties; (2) barriers to, and successful strategies for, the recruitment of minority chemists to faculty positions; and (3) new approaches to attract and retain minority faculty in chemistry departments in U.S. institutions.Chemistry departments continue to have low numbers of underrepresented minority faculty members, and consequently this is a topic of critical interest to the discipline -- the underutilization of the available talent pool. The workshop will present evidence that research and teaching are improved when academic chemistry faculties reflect the diversity of the U.S. The workshop is viewed as having potentially broad impact not only within chemistry, but other disciplines as well.