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<font face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">On behalf of the MIT Office of Graduate Education Diversity Initiatives...</i></font>
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<div class=""><font color="#7c2a00" size="4" class=""><b class="">Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping</b></font></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Join the OGE Diversity Initiatives and MIT University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) for a book lecture by Professor Julie Posselt <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">on
her most recent book, Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping. </span></span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 15px;" class="">Professor Posselt tailors a powerhouse talk to each audience, sharing firsthand observations of admission committees and
interviews with faculty from 10 top-ranked doctoral programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. She provides a window into the decision makers' point of view, highlighting how disciplinary norms shape the definition of merit, how professor's
good intentions around diversity often don't translate into results, and she provides concrete strategies to improve the admissions review process and promote transparency and accountability.</span></div>
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<div class=""><font style="font-size: 15px;" class="">The event is open to all graduate students and postdocs, particularly those who assist their faculty advisors in the graduate admissions process, volunteer to mentor prospective graduate students, or may
one day serve on an admissions committee.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class="">Day/Time:</b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>October 12, 2017. 3:00-4:30pm</font></div>
<div class=""><font style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class="">Location:</b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>W20-306</font></div>
<div class=""><font style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class="">Registration:</b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span><a href="https://mitinsidegradadmissions.eventbrite.com" target="_blank" class="">https://<wbr class="">mitinsidegradadmissions.<wbr class="">eventbrite.com</a></font></div>
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