Purdue Equity Task Force Implementation

Prof. Caldwell’s career has been a trailblazing one: he was the second tenured African-American faculty in Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and the first at Purdue. As a student, student-athlete, and successful faculty member, he has been a role model and pathfinder in challenges regarding representation, experience, and success of Black students, faculty and scholars. He now brings this experience to a campus-wide effort to address these representation, experience, and success considerations for Purdue graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty.

As a core member and advisor of the Purdue Equity Task Force Implementation, Prof. Caldwell works with university administration, students, and faculty across cultural and disciplinary boundaries to improve the opportunities and value of Purdue as a landmark of inclusive, multifaceted excellence as a public land grant university. His role as a Provost Fellow involves him in Purdue’s partnership discussions with Historically Black Colleges and Universities; determinations and elaborations of “success pathways” for undergraduate and graduate STEM students; and explorations of robust and resilient equity efforts for academic department.