Using Professional Societies For Recruitment

Many professional societies have caucuses for women and underrepresented minorities. Also, ethnic affiliated and women's professional societies exist in science and engineering disciplines to act as forums for information to provide career assistance. The following list represents a number of the academic professional groups:

Professional Societies

All

• Affirmative Action Register
• American Association of University Women
• Future Black Faculty Database

Natural Sciences

• National Academies: Committee on Women in Science in Engineering
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
• ASCB (minorities)
• ASCB (women)
• American Chemical Society
• American Physics Society
• Mathematics Association of America

Applied Sciences

• Computer Research Association
• National Academies: Committee on Women in Science in Engineering

Social Sciences

• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• AAA: Committee on the Status of Women
• AAA: Committee on Minority Issues
• American Economics Association
• AEA on the Status of Minority Groups in the Profession
• American Education Research Association (AERA)
• AERA (Scholars of Color in Education)
• AERA (Gender Equity in Education)
• American Historical Association (AHA)
• AHA (African American History)
• AHA (Gay and Lesbian History)
• AHA (Latin American History)
• AHA (Women)
• American Psychological Association (APA)
• APA (Society for Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues)
• APA (Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs)
• APA (Office of Women's Programs)
• American Sociological Association (ASA)
• Committee on Minorities

Humanities

• American Philological Association
• American Comparative Literature Association
• American Literature Association (check listings in affiliated societies for particular areas of interest)
• Modern Languages Association (MLA)
• MLA: Committee on Literatures of People of Color
• MLA: Modern Languages Association: Committee on Status of Women in the Profession

Societies and Organizations Associated with Professions

Business

• American Management Association
• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Education

• American Association for Colleges and Universities (AACU)
• AACU Diversity Web
• American Association for University Professors
• National Education Association

Law

• American Bar Association (ABA)
• ABA: Minority Lawyers
• ABA: Advancing Diversity in Legal Profession
• ABA: Women Lawyers

Medicine

• American Medical Association (AMA)
• AMA: Minority Affairs Consortium
• AMA: Women Physicians Congress
• American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• Diversity in the Profession

Public Health

• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• APHA list of Caucuses

Professional Ethnic Affiliated Societies and Societies for Women

Researchers also recommend posting faculty search announcements at a variety of sites dedicated to advancing underrepresented minorities and women in the sciences, such as:

• American Indian Science and Education Society
• Association for Women in Science
• Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology (CAWMSET)
• National Academies Committee on Women in Science and Engineering
• National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Science and Engineering
• National Institutes of Health: Women and Science Healthcare Network (this site also has professional societies for minorities)
• National Organization for the Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers
• National Society for Black Engineers
• National Society for Black Physicists
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
• Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES), Inc.
• Society for Women Engineers

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