Advance Project CREST

Our fearless leader Jessi L. Smith heads to the NSF in August to serve as a Program Director for the Social Psychology Program! The Project CREST Team will miss her in our final grant year, but we are excited to see her fulfill this lifelong dream!

Smith to go on loan to the National Science Foundation as Program Director Jessi L. Smith, Ph.D., is taking her knowledge and experience to the National Science Foundation to act as rotating Program Director for the Social Psychology Program.

The Project CREST team engaged in a productive and enriching experience with colleagues from across the nation at the Equity in STEM Annual Convening in Baltimore, where numerous ideas, resources, hugs (and tacos) were shared over three days. Cultural transformation requires a dedicated team, and we are grateful to work alongside such remarkable individuals. ❤️

“Academics today are less likely to simply want to pontificate from ivory towers. “Writing a paper that’s cited by four or five people is important,” says Malcolm Hill, dean of the faculty at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. “But with climate change, poverty, racism, our faculty are coming in and saying, ‘I want my scholarship to also have relevance to real-world problems’.””

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The report from APA also includes several recommendations for tackling these barriers and better mentoring for faculty of color.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity-equity/2023/09/21/psychology-faculty-color-barriers-tenure-promotion