Dear colleagues,
I am excited to announce a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of INFORMS Transactions on Education focused on "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in OR/MS Classrooms", guest edited by Margrét Bjarnadóttir and myself.
An important goal for our profession is to foster a diverse and robust pipeline of next-generation operations researchers and management scientists who can successfully tackle the world's complex problems. Instructors are therefore presented with two key challenges. First, within an OR/MS classroom, the instructor must provide a course structure and classroom environment that is welcoming and inclusive of students from diverse backgrounds. Second, instructors must equip students with the modeling and problem-solving skills that allow them to identify and mitigate sources of algorithmic bias, avoid decision-making that yields disparate impacts across different groups, and identify problems to solve and approaches to solve them with all stakeholders in mind.
This special issue will contribute to the literature on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in OR/MS education in two important ways: first, through the dissemination of best practices for inclusive and/or anti-racist pedagogy that are tailored to the OR/MS classroom context; second, through the curation of classroom materials that embed issues of equity, social justice, and discrimination into the OR/MS modeling and problem-solving process. We are particularly interested in papers that address teaching core OR/MS concepts at the undergraduate and graduate level.
For more details, please visit https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/ited/calls-for-papers
Kindly share this call for papers with any interested colleagues.
Warm regards,
Susan Martonosi
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Professor of Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont CA
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