Rutgers Faculty Affinity Networks (F.A.N)

Faculty Affinity Networks (FANs) are faculty-led spaces for connection, support, career-development and advancement around unique and similar identity-based experiences. FANs connect you with other faculty across Rutgers who share common interests or learning objectives, and allow you to learn, grow and support each other in the group.

The following Faculty Affinity Networks are currently accepting members:

- Black Women's Affinity Group
            Co-Leads: Lynnette Mawhinney, Ph.D. and Ashaki Rouff, Ph.D

We provide a forum for Black female-identifying faculty in Schools of Arts and Sciences to network, connect and share experiences and resources for our persistence, resilience and professional success at Rutgers University.

- Disability, Accessibility & Inclusion Network
             Co-Leads: Rachel Derr, DNP and Latisha Hayes-Gaines, DNP

We use research, education, and narrative exchange to catalyze shifts in perceptions, policies, and procedural frameworks about disabilities.

- Rutgers LGBTQIA+ FAN

Co-Leads: Caroline Harmon-Darrow, Ph.D., MSW and Troy A. Roepke, Ph.D.

We bring together LGBTQIA+ identifying faculty who desire to foster a sense of community at Rutgers and create a supportive and positive environment. 

- Rutgers Non-Tenure (NTT) Faculty 
             Co-Leads: Jenny Yang, Ph.D. and Travis DuBose, Ph.D.

We are a support network and platform for non-tenure track teaching faculty across the Rutgers campuses to offer peer support, share strategies for thriving, identify common challenges, and collaborate on teaching (as well as non-teaching) projects and initiatives.

- Rutgers Transnational Scholars FAN

Co-Leads: Ana Pairet-Vinas, Ph.D. and Selin Bengi Gumrukcu, Ph.D

We aim to create an inclusive, and supportive community for Rutgers scholars from countries other than the US. Whether you're navigating the challenges of launching a career while adjusting to unfamiliar cultural norms or have built a career in US, this network is here to connect you with colleagues whose identity encompasses several national cultures or more than one language