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在NSF化学部综合化学活动的支持下组织了一个关于“开发学术化学的少数民族人才库”的研讨会。“讲习班将审议：（1）少数群体在化学系任职人数不足的现状;（2）征聘少数群体化学家担任教职的障碍和成功战略;以及（3）美国院校吸引和留住化学系少数族裔教师的新方法。化学系的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主题-现有人才库利用不足。 研讨会将提出证据表明，当学术化学系反映美国的多样性时，研究和教学得到了改善。研讨会被认为不仅在化学领域，而且在其他学科也具有潜在的广泛影响。

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.