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Paula D. McClain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duke University, APSA past president (2020-2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Task Force Convener<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cathy J. Cohen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenure and Promotion Working Group<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John A. Garcia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICPSR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citation Working Group<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Niambi Carter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Howard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Student Training and Experiences Working Group<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Carol A. Mershon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Virginia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate and Context Working Group<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

About the Task Force\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

In 2020, former APSA President Paula D. McClain appointed a Task Force on Examining Issues and Mechanisms of Systemic Inequality in the Discipline.<\/strong>\u00a0The task force addresses the many issues of concern for marginalized members of our discipline, such as racial and ethnic minority scholars, women of all races and ethnicities, LGBTQ scholars. This task force report, which was presented to the APSA Council during its 2021 Fall Council Meeting, addresses questions of how systemic systems of inequality that have manifest overtime in the discipline affect the career trajectories and experiences, within the broad contours of the discipline, of scholars pushed to margins of the discipline. The full report was published in January 2022. The task force report features data and analysis that sheds light on how marginalized members of our discipline experience their scholarly lives in the profession, at annual and regional meetings, and in their home departments. The report provides a series of recommendations, particularly for APSA and for departments of political science across the country, to identify and remove the systemic inequalities that negatively impact scholars in the profession. The ultimate goal is to develop a set of best practices that will bring about change in those inequalities and move the discipline in a more equitable, open and accepting direction. The task force has held panels and webinars to share their recommendations. The webinar recordings and other resources are available on this website.\u00a0 Read the executive summary and Dr. McClain\u2019s introduction, the recommendations, and the chapters below.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Executive Summary, Recommendations, and Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chapter 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Promotions to Associate and Full Professor: Structurally Marginalized Faculty and the Pyramid Problem<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Citations and Inequities<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Climate and Context<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chapter 4<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Training and Graduate Student Experiences<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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APSA would like to acknowledge the support of the ASAE Research Foundation, Truist Foundation (formerly SunTrust Foundation), Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP, and Atlanta CVB.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paula D. McClain Duke University, APSA past president (2020-2021) Task Force Convener Cathy J. Cohen University of Chicago Tenure and Promotion Working Group John A. Garcia ICPSR Citation Working Group Niambi Carter  Howard University Graduate Student Training and Experiences Working Group Carol A. Mershon University of Virginia Climate and Context Working Group About the Task … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25307,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/sidtaskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/sidtaskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/sidtaskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/sidtaskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/sidtaskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/sidtaskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/sidtaskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}