Three CICS Faculty Selected for 2024-25 STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program
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The UMass Amherst Office of the Provost has announced the appointment of 30 faculty, including three members of the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) faculty, to the Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity Excellence (STRIDE) Faculty Fellowship Program for the 2024-25 academic year. Assistant Professor Ravi Karkar, Senior Teaching Faculty Matthew Rattigan, and Associate Professor Jay Taneja will join this year's cohort.
The STRIDE program aims to advance diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence in faculty recruitment at UMass Amherst. The fellowship program provides training for committee members involved in the recruitment and evaluation of candidates for faculty and librarian positions on campus. Fellows facilitate STRIDE Faculty Recruitment Workshops, ensuring that they are faculty-centered and faculty-driven with the expectation of continued engagement in improving training materials and serving as a resource for the UMass community during their one-year appointment.
A subset of this year’s fellows will also be specifically trained to administer a new workshop, Strategies and Tactics for Retention through Inclusive Promotion Evaluation (STRIPE) training, for personnel committee members who volunteer to learn strategies to minimize bias in faculty promotion and tenure cases.
The STRIDE fellowship program is sponsored by the UMass Amherst Office of the Provost and the Office of Equity and Inclusion, and complements other efforts to support faculty diversity, harnessing the collective knowledge and experience of university faculty to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in recruitment and retention.
View the complete list of this year’s STRIDE Faculty Fellows.
