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7.3 Faculty Workload Equity with Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper

Episode Summary

In this week's episode, guest expert, Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper, Associate Director & Research Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland’s ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence, joins us to talk about the challenges faculty faced while caring for children during the pandemic, work she has done on taking an equity minded approach to faculty workload, and some recommendations for best practices in this area. Feel free to share your thoughts and responses with us on Instagram or Facebook and tag us @university_of_venus on IG or post it on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/UVenus/ and we will share and amplify! Find University of Venus on Instagram @university_of_venus and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/UVenus/

Episode Notes

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

•  Challenges faculty faced while caring for children during the pandemic.
• Taking an equity-minded approach to faculty workload.
• Best practices related to faculty workload equity.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

•  Dawn at University of Maryland. 
• Faculty-Related COVID-19 Policies and Practices at Top-Ranked Higher Education Institutions in the United States
• “You can't hide your children anywhere”: Perceptions of organizational support for work‐life during the pandemic among academic couples who parent
• Addressing Workload Equity: Seven Strategies for Chairs
• Gendered and racialized perceptions of faculty workloads
• Making faculty work visible: An equity‐minded approach
• Equity-minded faculty workloads: What we can and should do now. American Council on Education
• Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia