A partnership of five University of California campuses–Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Santa Barbara and San Diego–and the University of Southern California, the California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) is a National Science Foundation-funded network of faculty and administrators across doctoral-granting universities that aimed to improve how graduate programs in California admit and educate the scientists and engineers of the future.
C-CIDE created innovative systems for faculty-to-faculty professional development by which programs could 1) evaluate the efficacy and equity of inherited practices for recruiting, admitting, and mentoring graduate students, and 2) move toward improving and enhancing practices where needed. It was also a multi-institution network that connected faculty committed to equity in doctoral education, in order to encourage the diffusion of inclusive practices. C-CIDE used Networked Improvement Community framework, developed by the Carnegie Foundation, to achieve collective change at scale in educational settings.
The project’s design tested the impact of faculty development on three outcomes: the admissions practices that PhD programs use, the diversity of their admitted cohorts, and the programs’ selectivity.