Goal 4a: The SoE community will increase the number of faculty of color hired and retained.
Goal 4b: SoE community will actively recruit faculty of color.
Strategic Actions/Initiatives
- Recruit and retain faculty of color.
- Develop a search “toolkit” of comprehensive guidelines for faculty searches and a tool kit to explore creative options to attract faculty of color.
Best Practices4
- Require hiring committee to participate in workshop/trainings (e.g., implicit bias).
- Educate members of the hiring unit so that they understand how they can constructively contribute to a successful search with a diverse pool of faculty applicants.
- Modify the search process (e.g., job postings and visit schedules) to better match the needs and interests of faculty of color and those from historically underrepresented groups.
- Ensure a diverse search committee with members who understand how diversity is a priority for the hiring unit.
- Utilize faculty networks to build a more diverse pool of applicants.
- Network with current and potential faculty of color and those from historically underrepresented groups at other institutions, which may even include inviting individuals to campus prior to a search.
- Consider the full range of faculty candidate qualities and how those qualities could contribute to the goals of the hiring unit and the SoE’s goals of increasing representation across a range of identities.
- Engage in open communication with faculty candidates about the strengths and challenges of the hiring unit, school, and community.
- Connect faculty candidates to people across campus and in the community who share their interests and potential concerns when they visit campus.
- Consider alternatives to “regular” search processes (e.g., targeted hiring, cluster hiring, post-doc positions) to increase the number of faculty of color hires and those from historically underrepresented groups.
Accountability Measures
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4 Some of the best practices included were informed by the following: http://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/about/administration/offices/hr/diversity-and-recruitment/DiversityActionPlan09_17_14.pdf