The National Summer Institute at the University of Denver: Promoting Multicultural Excellence in the Academy

Every summer, the University of Denver hosts a national summer institute designed to address the underrepresentation of faculty of color and women in academia. Entitled “Promoting Multicultural Excellence in the Academy,” the institute is hosted by the DU Office of Multicultural Faculty Recruitment and Retention within the Center for Multicultural Excellence, and the Office of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Denver. Now in its sixth year, the institute has hosted a total of 113 doctoral students of color and women representing more than twenty-three universities including Harvard, Columbia, Maryland, Michigan, Arizona, CU-Boulder, University of Denver, Berkeley, UCLA and Stanford. For the past six years, staff of the institute have identified a diverse group of doctoral candidates represent a variety of disciplines including political science, engineering, higher education, sociology, psychology, modern thought and literature, sociology, german studies, spanish, english, history, library information science, counseling psychology, human communications and social work.

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