Supporting Your BIPOC Faculty Colleagues: Guidance for Senior Faculty, Chairs, and Deans
On March 1, 2022, the Faculty Advancement Network will host Supporting Your BIPOC Faculty Colleagues: Guidance for Senior Faculty, Chairs, and Deans This session will be led by Modupe Akinola, Associate Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School.
Dr. Akinola will discuss how chairs, senior faculty, and other academic leaders can change their stress mindsets to support their BIPOC faculty colleagues in managing and utilizing stress in the department and across the university.
Akinola will guide us in answering questions such as:
- How do we understand stress for BIPOC faculty in our academic department?
- How do we address and overcome our colleagues’ stress so that more people can feel welcome and thrive in environments where there is little diversity?
- How might we change our own stress mindsets to better understand and support our BIPOC colleagues?
Modupe Akinola is an Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School. Akinola’s research examines how organizational environments can engender stress, and how this stress can influence individual and organizational performance. She uses multiple methodologies, including physiological responses (specifically hormonal and cardiovascular responses), behavioral observation, and implicit and reaction time measures, to examine how cognitive outcomes are affected by stress. Additionally, Akinola examines the strategies organizations employ to increase the diversity of their talent pool, as well as the biases that affect the recruitment and retention of women and people of color in organizations.
The Faculty Advancement Network (FAN) is an Ivy Plus consortium organized to advance diversity and inclusion in the professoriate, and Columbia is a founding member.