Advance Faculty Diversity & Retention
Impact Area: Invest in and provide training for students, staff, and faculty
View the DEI Action Plan for 2020-2021
Advance faculty diversity and retention.
Action Item Details
快活app continues to lag in both its recruitment and retention of minoritized faculty.听This action item, which will be ongoing throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, will听build听on current strengths and develop听new tools for university leaders to more aggressively diversify and retain our faculty. These opportunities听and tools听include:听
- Continuing听to build the university鈥檚 critical race and ethnic studies, gender and women studies, and urban听studies听curriculums听with commitments to Indigenous and Black community initiatives听by exploring the feasibility of cluster hires听in听Indigenous and Black studies听with specializations in sexuality,听urban听and/or sustainability听studies.听
- Developing a target of opportunity hiring initiative to aggressively hire faculty candidates, at any rank and in any discipline, who have an accomplished track record (calibrated to their career stage) of teaching, research,听or service activities addressing the needs of African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian Pacific Islander students or communities.
- Investing substantively in growing on- or off-campus initiatives (such as becoming an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development) to provide professional development, training, and formalized mentorship opportunities for minoritized faculty to support their promotion, tenure, and pathways听to academic leadership.
Updates
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Hiring policies, proposals, and support for minoritized faculty
Lisa Martinez, assistant provost for DEI research and curricular initiatives, is working with the Provost听and her office to develop a Target of Opportunity Hiring Policy for the University, a cluster hiring proposal in Black and Indigenous studies, and for greater support for minoritized faculty to engage more robustly in opportunities provided by the .
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快活app Joins National Alliance Aimed at Developing a More Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty
October 29, 2020
The 快活app today announced it鈥檚 one of 19 universities joining a three-year institutional change effort to develop inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring, and retention practices. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) co-leads the effort, known as听. The new cohort joins听听听cohorts that are currently working together to advance such work, bringing the total number of institutions participating in the institutional change effort to 54. The National Science Foundation funds the effort as part of its INCLUDES initiative.