The speaker series, which focuses on underrepresented minorities in graduate education, was created by IU-Bloomington in conjunction with IU-Purdue University Indianapolis, according to an IUPUI news release.
Monday’s event was called “Faculty and Staff Group Dialogue: Applying Theoretical Frameworks for Research on Students.”
The speaker series began Nov. 4 at IUPUI’s Hine Hall with two seminars, “Finding Your Place: A Conversation with Graduate Students” and “Faculty and Staff Group Dialogue: Frameworks and Promising Practices,” according to the release.
The series is part of IU President Michael McRobbie’s Graduate Diversity Initiative and is hosted by the Graduate Mentorship Center.
The first seminar of the speaker series featured Terrell Stayhorn.
He is the director of the Center for Higher Education Enterprise and a professor of higher education at Ohio State University, according to the release.
The series, officially called the Trailblazers and Innovators in Underrepresented Minorities in Graduate Education Seminar Speaker Series, is free and open to the public.
The next seminars will take place next Tuesday on the IU-Bloomington ?campus.
The seminars are “Finding Your Place: A Conversation With Graduate Students” and “The Science of Broadening Participation in STEM: A Community Dialogue and Reception.”
Kathrine Schulze
