When engaging in the faculty search and screen process, it is important to understand how implicit bias and other factors may impede the cultivation of a diverse hiring pool of candidates. The following resources are provided to increase self-awareness in search committee members as they strive to execute a fair and equitable search process.
TO BE ADDED TO ALL FACULTY POSITION DESCRIPTIONS:
As the state’s premier urban research institution, IUPUI is committed to being a welcoming campus community that reflects and enacts the values of diversity, equity and inclusion that inform academic excellence. We seek candidates who will not only enhance our representational diversity but whose research, teaching, and community engagement efforts contribute to diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning and working environments for our students, staff, and faculty. IUPUI condemns racism in all its forms and has taken an anti-racist stance that moves beyond mere statements to interrogating its policies, procedures, and practices. We hope to identify individuals who will assist in our mission to dismantle racism so that everyone has the opportunity to succeed at IUPUI.
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Schools with operations on more than one campus should adapt as much of this language as reasonably possible, while indicating the specific IU campus on which the position is based and aligning with that campus’ state values for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This statement was approved by the Strategic Academic HR Council: Rachel Applegate, Camy Broeker, Margie Ferguson (chair), Gina Sanchez Gibau, Kathy Johnson, Anne Mitchell, Mansi R. Singh, Juletta Toliver, Biannca Yates.
SAMPLE
Provide a statement that describes how your research, teaching, and/or service has contributed or will contribute to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), considered integral to the institution and the intellectual work of faculty. Question prompts are only suggestive.
Evidence should include:
- Examples that demonstrate intellectual thought: how one conceptualizes DEI and its importance in higher education
- Why is DEI an imperative in higher education today?
- How is DEI articiulated in your own work as a faculty member?
- How is DEI treated in your discipline?
- Articulation of acquired knowledge, skills, and competencies
- What is your current understanding of DEI? How have you acquired that knowledge?
- What additional training or professional development have you received?
- What opportunities have you had to enact your competency in DEI matters?
- Examples of work: contributions toward enhancing DEI related to faculty/administrative role
- What treatment does DEI have in your classes? In your department?
- How has DEI been incorporated into your community-engaged scholarship?
- How have you contributed to overall DEI efforts on campus?
- How is DEI integrated through mentorship?
- Proposed actions: in consideration of institutional context
- What specific goals and objectives do you have for advancing DEI at IUPUI in a faculty/administrative role?
- What specific actions to you plan to implement in fulfillment of those goals/objectives?
- How does your planned actions relate back to the specific context of IUPUI and its faculty, staff, and students?
Videos
Webinars
- HERC Webinars on Demand
- Where's Bias Hiding in Your Hiring Process?
- Toward Inclusive Excellence: Attracting and Retaining Diverse Faculty and Staff
Articles
- Bensimon: New Policies are Needed to Recruit Racially and Ethically Diverse Faculties
- Gasman: The Five Things No One Will Tell You About Why Colleges Don't Hire More Faculty of Color
- Kets: Want More Innovation? Get More Diversity
- Managing Unconscious Bias: Paradigm
- HBR: Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion
- Hrabowski III: Growing Faculty Diversity is a Shared Responsibility of Critical Importance
- Rockquemore: For a Diverse Faculty, Start with Retention
- Schoenberger: Can You Spot Diversity? (Probably Not)
- The A to Z of Dual-Career Couples
- Malatestinic: Your brain, wired for shortcuts, may lead to biased hiring
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com
- E-mail: moc[dot]elcinorhc[at]sboj (for advertising)
- Academic Diversity Search: http://www.academicdiversitysearch.com/
- American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity (AAAED): http://www.aaaed.org/aaaed/default.asp
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES): www.aises.org
- Email: gro[dot]sesia[at]ofni
- Association for Women in Science: www.awis.org
- E-mail: gro[dot]siwa[at]siwa
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diversejobs.net/
- Diversity in Higher Education: http://diversityinhighereducation.com/
- HigherEdJobs.com: www.higheredjobs.com
- E-mail: moc[dot]sboJdErehgiH[at]selas
- Higher Education Recruitment Consortium: http://www.hercjobs.org/
- Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine: www.hispanicoutlookjobs.com
- E-mail: moc[dot]kooltuocinapsih[at]ofnI
- Inside Higher Ed: http://careers.insidehighered.com
- INSIGHT Into Diversity: www.insightintodiversity.com/
- E-mail: moc[dot]ytisrevidotnithgisni[at]ofni (for advertising)
- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: http://www.jbhe.com/jobs/
- Email: moc[dot]ehbj[at]sda (for advertising)
- Latinos in Higher Ed: www.latinosinhighered.com
- National Society of Black Engineers: www.nsbe.org
- E-mail: gro[dot]ebsn[at]ofni
- Society for Advancement of Chicano & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS): www.sacnas.org
- E-mail: gro[dot]sancas[at]ofni
- Society of Women Engineers: http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org
- E-mail: gro[dot]ews[at]qh
- Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education: http://tribalcollegejournal.org
- Women in Higher Education: www.wihe.com
- E-mail: moc[dot]yeliw[at]sbusbj
