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Faculty Advancement Network

The Faculty Advancement Network is a consortium of research universities collaborating to advance diversity and inclusion in the American professoriate. The consortium members are leaders in faculty affairs, advancement, development, diversity and inclusion who agree: realizing a diverse and inclusive professoriate is a systemic challenge that demands cooperative solutions. Pictured above is the 2023-2024 cohort from left: Anthony Burrow, Anindita Banerjee, Iftikhar Dadi, Gerlinde Van de Walle, and Jocelyn Rose.

Participants meet throughout the year both with their colleagues at Cornell and also with colleagues from other institutions to participate in discussions and workshops and to attend the Institute on Inquiry, Equity, and Leadership in the Academic Department.

We are working across “silos” to identify law-attentive collaborations of consequence that reimagine the norms, structures, policies and programs that shape university cultures and the academic workforce.

2024-2025 cohort

Susan Daniel, Fred H. Rhodes Professor of Chemical Engineering, and William C. Hooey Director of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Sander Kersten, Schleifer Family Professor and Director, Division of Nutritional Sciences
Joe Peters, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology
Riché Richardson, Professor of African American Literature, and Chair, Africana Studies and Research Center
Suman Seth, Underhill Noll Professor in the History of Science, and Chair, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Samantha Sheppard, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, and Chair, Department of Performing and Media Arts

2023-2024 Cohort

Anindita Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Anthony Burrow, Ferris Family Associae Professor of Life Course Studies, Department of Psychology, and Director, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
Iftikhar Dadi, John H. Burris Professor and Chair, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies
Tara Holm, Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics
Jocelyn Rose, Barbara McClintock Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Biology Section, and Director, School of Integrated Plant Science
Gerlinde van de Walle, Professor and Director, the Baker Institute for Animal Health

2022-2023 Cohort

C. Lindsay Anderson, Professor and Chair, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Pat Cassano, Alan D. Mathios Professor, and Director, Division of Nutritional Sciences
Lara Estroff, Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Deborah Fowell, Professor of Immunology and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Eva Tardos, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
Chris Xu, IBM Professor of Engineering and Director, School of Applied & Engineering Physics