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Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is now accepting nominations for the 2022 Diversity Champion Awards, honoring one student, staff and faculty member, and one unit who have worked to advance a culture of inclusion and belonging at Georgia Tech. 

Philonise Floyd, activist and brother of George Floyd, will be the featured speaker at the 2022 Black History Month Lecture.

The 13^th annual Georgia Tech Diversity Symposium was hosted Sept. 15, sponsored by Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents (BOR) appointed 12 Georgia Tech faculty members to Regents Professors and Regents Researchers.

The ADVANCE Program at Georgia Tech welcomed three new professors on July 1: Ana “Annie” I. Antón, Nancey Green Leigh, and Mary G. McDonald.

Following a national search, Diley Hernández was selected as associate vice president for Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She began her new role on July 6.

Christina “Chris” Griffin is the new Title IX coordinator at Georgia Tech. She stepped into the role on June 1, 2021.

The Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program at Georgia Tech is now accepting applications for its fifth cohort.

More than 50 representatives from across the campus have been appointed by President Ángel Cabrera to the newly formed Georgia Tech Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council which will identify issues of campus racial and gender disparity, bias, and inequity to be addressed in order to deliver upon the Institute’s vision of diversity and inclusion.

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is now seeking nominations for the fifth cohort of the Inclusive Leaders Academy.

The 2020 Georgia Tech Diversity Symposium featured campus presenters discussing disability awareness and its importance to diversity, inclusion, and the campus community. The event was hosted virtually for the first time in the program's history.

The fourth cohort of the Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program are set to begin program Sept. 24, 2020.

For the seventh consecutive year, Georgia Tech has been named a HEED Award recipient — a national honor recognizing colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Terry Blum and Martha Grover were recently named ADVANCE professors for Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business and the College of Engineering, respectively.

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) approved changes to its sexual misconduct policies and procedures at its meeting Tuesday, Aug. 11, in accordance with new federal Title IX regulations that go into effect August 14.

Jacqueline J. Royster, professor of English in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts from 2010 – 2019, has been named professor emerita.

“Race at Georgia Tech: A Call to Action” drew more than 1,000 unique viewers during 90 minutes of candid, passionate reflections on Black experiences at Tech.

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (IDEI) will host a virtual panel discussion entitled “Race at Georgia Tech: A Call to Action,” on Thursday, July 16.

Conversations about race emerge from the shadows.

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is now seeking nominations for the fifth cohort of the Leading Women@Tech program.

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (IDEI) is leading Tech’s effort in collaboration with units across the campus.

This year’s Faces of Inclusive Excellence publication will recognize faculty, staff, and students at the 12th Annual Diversity Symposium on September 9, 2020.

Archie Ervin shares his thoughts on the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbury and racial injustice in ‘Commitment to Drive Change.'

The fourth iteration of the Leading Women@Tech program hosted a virtual closing conversation on April 24.

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents (BOR) has approved Georgia Tech’s updated mission statement.

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is now accepting nominations for the Diversity Champion Awards: Accessibility Champions.

The Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program at Georgia Tech is now accepting applications for its fourth cohort.

As the coronavirus pandemic (also known as COVID-19) continues to spread in U.S. cities and around the world, experts are sharing their advice to help determine a safe path forward.

Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has named Tia Jackson-Truitt as its inaugural director of Diversity and Inclusion Education and Training.

ISyE Professor Pinar Keskinocak and her team have developed a model that better matches flu vaccine supply with actual regional demand.

Thousands of people focused on the future of Georgia Tech by helping us complete phase one — visioning and drafting — of Georgia Tech’s strategic planning process. Now, the process moves into the goal-setting phase that will include an opportunity for review and input from the Georgia Tech community.

Mary Frank Fox, ADVANCE Professor in the School of Public Policy, has been elected Chair of the Social, Economic and Political Sciences Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Adaptive Leadership Workshop is designed to provide tenured and non-tenure track faculty and staff members with an understanding of concepts that will enhance leadership abilities and more.

Georgia Tech has received the 2019 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. This is the sixth consecutive year the Institute has been a recipient of the award.

Institute Diversity and Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE Program, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development, are offering four Implicit Bias Workshops to faculty this fall.

With a new school year on the horizon, the Institute would like to remind employees of Georgia Tech’s and the University System of Georgia’s (USG’s) Sexual Misconduct Policies as well as certain employees’ responsibility as mandatory reporters.

The Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Techology and its faculty its faculty organizers have played key roles in inspiring Georgia Tech’s learning communities, the Institute’s first undergraduate student-faculty research program, the WST Distinguished Lecture, and in Georgia Tech’s participation in the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Institutional Transformation program.

The effort to update the existing template is a closer alignment of the language in faculty hiring ads with the institution’s goals.

A pilot program seeking to build a network of ambassadors in support of inclusive excellence celebrated the completion of its second group of fellows this month at the Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program Poster Expo.

Through its ADVANCE program, Georgia Tech is working to increase representation and advancement of women in academic, science and engineering careers.
 

The University System of Georgia (USG)'s Board of Regents has appointed four Georgia Tech faculty members as Regents Professors, and one as a Regents Researcher.

Kim Cobb is selected to lead the program, which will coordinate and grow educational and research activities focused on providing solutions and creating economic opportunities at the intersection of global change, climate change, and energy.

Mary Frank Fox, ADVANCE professor in the School of Public Policy, was recently elected to the rank of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was also elected to the AAAS Committee on Nominations who determine the slate for elections of the organization's president-elect, board of directors, and the  AAAS Council executive committee.

Dr. Keskinocak, George Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been named as interim associate dean for faculty development and scholarship in the College of Engineering (CoE) Dean’s Office, effective July 1.

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Kim Cobb program is collaborating with College of Business Professor Beril Toktay to extend the reach of the Carbon Reduction Challenge. Toktay is the faculty director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business. 

Mary Frank Fox, an ADVANCE Professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, is the recipient Ivan Allen College Distinguished Faculty Researcher Award.

Mary Frank Fox, an ADVANCE Professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, has been awarded the 2017 Faculty of the Year Award by the Georgia Tech Undergraduate Student Government Association (SGA).

Dana Randall shares classroom strategies and advice for new faculty in this profile originally published in The Whistle, April 3.

Mary Frank Fox, ADVANCE Professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, has been elected to the Electorate Nominating Committee of the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Mary Frank Fox, ADVANCE Professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy and co-director of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology, received the Gender Equity Champion Award at Georgia Tech’s Eighth Annual Diversity Symposium on September 16. 

In collaboration with Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE Program, Institute Diversity has been offering 90-minute workshops to address the concepts of implicit bias and perceptions of competence. 

Institute Diversity will manage the implementation of a set of recommendations that came from recent conversations with women on campus. A working group will review progress quarterly.

Opportunity to better understand the experiences and challenges unique to women at Georgia Tech