BIPOC Faculty Recruitment w/EAB: Academic Affairs Leaders Advancing Diversity Goals
Presenter: Jennifer Latino
October 20th 2-4pm
Audience: Academic search committees, departmental personnel committees, department chairs, deans, associate deans
Faculty diversity has been slow to change despite decades of calls from student activists. Recently, the Black Lives Matter movement has called particular attention to the low numbers of BIPOC faculty. Not only do faculty demographics lag behind the diversity of our campuses and communities, but students also miss the benefits of learning from faculty with a diverse range of backgrounds.
But as more institutions set diversity goals, competition for the best faculty candidates continues to intensify. As a result, academic leaders must take immediate action to increase the diversity of their candidate pool for faculty searches with changes to job ad language, candidate-facing websites, and interviewing processes. At the same time, colleges also need to think about how to make themselves attractive places to work for BIPOC faculty, including setting up candidates and new hires with mentors who can give thoughtful advice about life at the institution and in the local community. Beyond the search process itself, academic leaders also need to make bigger-picture hiring considerations for their institution, including aligning faculty line allocation strategy with DEIJ goals.
BIPOC Faculty Recruitment Deck
BIPOC Faculty Recruitment Workbook