The C3-LADO Faculty Recruitment visit to the University of Chicago begins today! Organized by UChicagoGRAD in conjunction with the GRADUCon career conference, the C3-LADO visit will offer a day and a half of networking, panel discussions, and one-on-one meetings about tenure-track careers at liberal arts colleges. Faculty representatives from Providence, Middlebury, Dickinson, Reed, St. Olaf, and Williams Colleges will attend.

With the aim of connecting underrepresented graduate students with employment opportunities at liberal arts colleges, C3-LADO faculty and administrators will demystify social and intellectual life and highlight faculty support and development at these same institutions.

Registrations are now being accepted for the 2017 C3 Summit, to be held at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., Friday, April 21 through Sunday, April 23, 2017.

During the C3 Summit, The Transformative Power of Race in the Academy: Measuring Change, Charting Futures, faculty, students and administrators from institutions across the country will gather to participate in discussions and panels as we think critically about issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in the academy. This year’s conference builds on the 2015 C3 Summit held at Bates College, Practicing Communities: The Transformative Power of Race in the Academy.  

Online registrations will be accepted through April 7, 2017. For more information on the Summit, please use the menu tab above or visit the Williams College C3 Summit website.

Panelists answered graduate students’ questions during the first-ever C3-LADO visit to University of Michigan.

The first-ever C3-LADO visit to the University of Michigan generated a lot of interest on campus, with nearly 60 graduate students and postdocs participating in the two-day event on October 10 and 11, 2016.

Mark Kamimura-Jimenez, Assistant Dean of Programs, Policy, and Diversity Initiatives at Michigan, welcomed visiting faculty and Michigan graduate students and postdocs. Day one began with a panel on academic life at liberal arts colleges, moderated by Kathryn Low (Bates College). Panelists Matt Carter (Williams College), VaNatta Ford (Williams College), and Adriana Salerno (Bates College) discussed topics such as student performance, cross-departmental collaboration, funding, and teaching loads.

In her keynote address, Susan Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, discussed her personal experience teaching and conducting research at both a liberal arts college and a R1 university. Dr. Douglas also incorporated discussion of her award-winning work on gender and feminism.

The day ended with discipline-specific workshops, in which liberal arts faculty met separately with Humanities, Social Science, and STEM graduate students and postdocs at the Michigan Union.

The following day, students and postdocs met individually with seven liberal arts faculty members, who provided constructive feedback on their cover letters and CVs.

The visit concluded with a well-attended lunch panel of faculty members from Connecticut and Williams Colleges who openly discussed social and intellectual life at liberal arts colleges. Rhon Manigault-Bryant (Williams), Ronald Flores (Connecticut), and Christopher Goh (Williams) answered questions about student-teacher relationships, community integration, and the maintenance of professional and personal boundaries.