Compact for Faculty Diversity recently honored Enid Montague, a Virginia Tech doctoral graduate in industrial engineering, at its 15th Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring program.
The Institute on Teaching brought together more than 1,000 students, faculty members and others for leadership training and workshops, networking and job interviews. It is the nation’s largest annual gathering of minority Ph.D. students and faculty mentors according to the nonprofit.
Montague thanked her college family for its help. SREB, the Institute and others “gave me the support and inspiration to complete my dissertation,” she said. She is now an assistant professor of industrial systems and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on human factors, health systems, and human-computer interaction.
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and several partner organizations hosted the Institute, which focuses national attention on the severe shortage of minority faculty members across the nation.
The Atlanta-based Southern Regional Education Board (www.sreb.org) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that advises state education leaders on ways to improve education. SREB was created in 1948 to help educators and government leaders work cooperatively to advance education, and improve social and economic life.
About 5 percent of the professors at public four-year colleges in the United States are black, about 3 percent are Hispanic and less than 1 percent are American Indian -- despite the fact that almost one-third of America’s college students are people of color, according to the group.
To learn more about Montague, visit http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ie/faculty/montague_enid.html
To learn more about the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, visit http://www.instituteonteachingandmentoring.org/Compact/index.html.