Working Paper Series to focus on navigating careers in the academy as related to gender, race and class

The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, in partnership with ADVANCE-Center for Faculty Success, is announcing a new Working Paper Series that will focus on navigating careers in the academy. This peer-reviewed series will include work by senior scholars, graduate students and faculty, and abstracts are currently being accepted.

The series will serve as a means for documenting and sharing interventions, practices and processes developed or used by those in the academy to navigate their careers. Topics may include but are not limited to strategies for diversifying faculty, staff and students; creating inclusive research environments; considering inclusivity in mentoring; and gender biases in the classroom. Submissions that fall under the broad topic of academic careers, particularly as related to issues of gender, race and class, are being sought. Papers can be a maximum of 5,000 words and may be reflection papers, summaries of research, write-ups of speakers or meetings, white papers, preliminary findings, conceptual pieces, creative works or best practices.

Individuals interested in submitting a manuscript for the series should send a 150-word abstract summarizing the paper’s essential points to advance-butler@purdue.edu. If the abstract suggests that the paper is suitable for the Butler Center-ADVANCE Working Paper Series, the submitter will be invited to turn in the full-length paper for peer review and consideration for publication. Decisions on abstracts will be made within three weeks of receipt of the abstract. In order to be considered for the fall issue of the series, abstracts must be submitted by Oct. 22.

More information about the series is available online or by writing to advance-butler@purdue.edu.