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Cancelled: Strategies for Hiring and Retaining Diverse Faculty: Best Practices in Higher Education

March 18, 2020, All Day
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Drawing on her work and familiarity with institutions that have developed comprehensive strategies to improve their practices relating to hiring and retaining diverse faculty, Torres will present pathways forward for more intentional, successful searches and retention practices. Her talk will illustrate for  departments how to analyze their best practices and set into motion interventions that would lead to better hiring and maintaining of representative populations.

Speaker Bio: As a faculty-administrator, Dr. Torres supports the educational advancement of under-represented communities in higher education. She is the Director of the Chancellor’s Latino Faculty Initiative at CUNY, and is the President of the Puerto Rican Studies Association.Prior to her arrival at CUNY, Dr. Torres served as Director of the Latina/Latino Studies Program at Illinois and as Associate Professor of Anthropology there. She also served as Assistant to the Dean at the Graduate College at Illinois, and as President of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association. In her varied roles, Dr. Torres has worked on the recruitment and retention of university faculty, graduate students, and administrators. She has held appointments and received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and Princeton University.A cultural anthropologist, her publications include two edited volumes with Norman E. Whitten, Jr., Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean (Indiana University Press). Her chapter, “Collecting Puerto Ricans,” in Kevin Yelvington’s (ed.) Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora (SAR Press), reflects one of Dr. Torres’s recent intellectual concerns: the racialization of ethnic groups in museum settings. As a public intellectual, she has served as a member of the Advisory Board and consultant to a national project on race supported by the American Anthropological Association, National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation. Dr. Torres recently received a major grant from the National Park Service and will be conducting a study of the experiences of migrant and immigrant ethnic communities located in Paterson, New Jersey dating from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The goal of the project is to further enhance the relationship between the residents, Great Falls, and the National Park Service.

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