Isaac Burt, associate professor in the department of counseling, recreation and school psychology, in the College of Arts, Sciences & Education (CASE), is the third associate director of the Office to Advance Women, Equity & Diversity (AWED).
AWED aims to achieve and sustain faculty equity and diversity as an essential element of FIU’s academic excellence. The office also houses FIU ADVANCE, the university’s five-year, $3.2 million Institutional Transformation grant awarded in 2016 by the National Science Foundation to develop strategies that increase the number of women and minority professors in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the social and behavioral sciences at FIU.
As associate director, Burt will assist AWED with STRIDE and Bystander team facilitation, diversity & inclusion plan development, and research and publishing projects and collaborations. He joins associate director Kirsten Wood, associate professor of history, and Caroline Simpson, professor of physics.
Burt hopes to use his research expertise in neuroscience and racism/discrimination, flow state/optimal experience, social justice for historically marginalized populations, and culturally sensitive treatments to grow the university’s goals of achieving faculty diversity and equity.
“I am honored and privileged to work with the AWED Office in this new role to help develop FIU’s goals of becoming a top 50 public university which is inclusive and representative of Miami’s rich and diverse racial and ethnic population.”
