{"id":394002,"date":"2019-08-28T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=394002"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T18:16:27","slug":"marvin-doyley-selected-for-first-cohort-of-national-stem-leadership-program-394002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/marvin-doyley-selected-for-first-cohort-of-national-stem-leadership-program-394002\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Doyley selected for first cohort of national STEM leadership program"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Marvin Doyley<\/a> attends a major conference of electrical engineers in England this fall, he will be one of nearly 5,000 delegates.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there won\u2019t be many who look like me,\u201d says the University of Rochester<\/a> professor of electrical and computer engineering. He estimates only about 10 of the participants at the IEEE conference will be black.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn’t bother me now as much as it did before,\u201d Doyley says. \u201cNow, I am a senior member, I have worked my way up, people know me, we have common experiences to talk about. But I\u2019ll be looking at someone else who is a minority just starting to come up, who will be standing at the back, hesitant to speak or ask questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doyley is embarking on a mission to help address the glaring underrepresentation of minorities and women in STEM fields. He is one of 20 faculty members nationwide who have been selected for the first cohort of the IAspire Leadership Academy<\/a>, a program aimed at helping STEM faculty from underrepresented backgrounds ascend to leadership roles at colleges and universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarvin is a great faculty colleague and over the years he has contributed tremendously to ECE\u2019s research profile and teaching mission,\u201d says Mark Bocko, chair of the Department Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u00a0<\/a> \u201cHe clearly already possesses the skills and energy to be a wonderful leader for our department and the University, and the IAspire program is an excellent opportunity for him to hone those skills and prepare to take on new challenges in academic leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

The academy, housed at the University of Georgia, is backed by the National Science Foundation and offered by Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty<\/a>. The one-year core curriculum includes in-person sessions, peer coaching sessions, a concurrent individual learning component, and an institutional action project.<\/p>\n

Doyley\u2019s chosen project: Grow a pipeline to help diversify graduate students and faculty in his department. Doyley, for example, is the only black faculty member in the department, and only two women have primary appointments.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll approach this in two ways.<\/p>\n