Graduate Student Hackathon for Diversity and Inclusion Continued Working Group

Session Submission Type: Business Meeting

Session Description

At APSA 2018, our team of graduate students was a part of the Hackathon led by the APSA Presidential Task Force on Women’s Advancement. Our goal was to share and discuss what different departments are currently doing to improve graduate student life in the department, both in and outside of the classroom. We conducted a climate survey of more than 400 current and recent graduate students from political science departments across the country. We also brainstormed concrete actions that departments can take to enhance the graduate student experience, with specific consideration towards diversity and inclusion. We created this website to present our results and recommendations: https://apsagradhack.github.io/.

The goal of this working group is to further these efforts. Specifically, we plan to conduct a follow up climate survey this summer. During the working group, we will discuss progress, analyze this new data, update the website, and plan to write a research note for publication. This group hopes to reconvene participants from last year, but it is also open to new participants.

Sub Unit

• APSA Panels and All Meetings and Receptions

Chair

• Yang-Yang Zhou Princeton University