COLES COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Recruiting & Hiring a Diverse Faculty Statement on Diversity The Coles College is committed to fostering diversity by providing a supportive environment for its students, faculty, and staff and to cultivating a culture that respects differences in age, ethnicity, national origin, gender, race, color, physical ability, sexual orientation, and religious affiliation. The Coles College emphasizes diversity, in all its forms, across all programs. This diversity requires a sustained effort to recruit and develop qualified faculty and staff from various backgrounds; curriculum and pedagogical approaches that provide exposure to diverse cultures and ways of thinking; and a work setting that values diverse contributions and fosters mutual respect and teamwork. Goal: Recruiting & Hiring a Diverse Faculty To promote and support college and departmental initiatives that will provide opportunities to implement our statement on diversity in the context of faculty hiring. The Coles College of Business has identified the following action steps to aid in achieving this goal. Energy and resources are focused on recruiting a large pool of highly qualified applicants including persons from under-represented groups with the objective of hiring the best qualified candidate for a given position. Action Steps: 1. The dean will embrace an active leadership role in supporting college and departmental initiatives. 2. Attention should be given to ensure that search committees are broadly representative and include persons from underrepresented minority groups and women whenever possible. 3. Search committees will actively, creatively and aggressively identify and pursue historically underrepresented candidates for faculty positions, making every effort possible to include potentially qualified minority and women candidates. 4. Position descriptions should encourage diverse applicants and clearly state that inclusiveness and diversity are departmental and college goals. 5. Publicity for a position should be designed to attract a reasonably large pool of highly qualified candidates. A wide net should be cast to communicate openings through professional associations, associations whose membership consists of persons from underrepresented groups and women, and institutions that are among the highest producers of PhD’s among underrepresented groups. 6. The Coles College will maintain a current membership in the Ph.D. Project, a corporate and academic-led effort to increase minority representation among business professors. 7. The dean, working with the search committee, should identify faculty from underrepresented groups and women who are willing to meet as needed with minority faculty and women candidates as part of a recruitment effort. 8. Faculty who are invited to meet informally with candidates from underrepresented groups and women candidates as indicated above should provide a realistic assessment of campus culture that presents both strengths and weaknesses as well as emphasizes the efforts that are being made at improvement where needed.
COLES COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Recruiting & Hiring a Diverse Faculty
Statement on Diversity
The Coles College is committed to fostering diversity by providing a supportive environment for its students, faculty, and staff and to cultivating a culture that respects differences in age, ethnicity, national origin, gender, race, color, physical ability, sexual orientation, and religious affiliation.
The Coles College emphasizes diversity, in all its forms, across all programs. This diversity requires a sustained effort to recruit and develop qualified faculty and staff from various backgrounds; curriculum and pedagogical approaches that provide exposure to diverse cultures and ways of thinking; and a work setting that values diverse contributions and fosters mutual respect and teamwork.
Goal: Recruiting & Hiring a Diverse Faculty
To promote and support college and departmental initiatives that will provide opportunities to implement our statement on diversity in the context of faculty hiring.
The Coles College of Business has identified the following action steps to aid in achieving this goal. Energy and resources are focused on recruiting a large pool of highly qualified applicants including persons from under-represented groups with the objective of hiring the best qualified candidate for a given position.
Action Steps:
1. The dean will embrace an active leadership role in supporting college and departmental initiatives.
2. Attention should be given to ensure that search committees are broadly representative and include persons from underrepresented minority groups and women whenever possible.
3. Search committees will actively, creatively and aggressively identify and pursue historically underrepresented candidates for faculty positions, making every effort possible to include potentially qualified minority and women candidates.
4. Position descriptions should encourage diverse applicants and clearly state that inclusiveness and diversity are departmental and college goals.
5. Publicity for a position should be designed to attract a reasonably large pool of highly qualified candidates. A wide net should be cast to communicate openings through professional associations, associations whose membership consists of persons from underrepresented groups and women, and institutions that are among the highest producers of PhD’s among underrepresented groups.
6. The Coles College will maintain a current membership in the Ph.D. Project, a corporate and academic-led effort to increase minority representation among business professors.
7. The dean, working with the search committee, should identify faculty from underrepresented groups and women who are willing to meet as needed with minority faculty and women candidates as part of a recruitment effort.
8. Faculty who are invited to meet informally with candidates from underrepresented groups and women candidates as indicated above should provide a realistic assessment of campus culture that presents both strengths and weaknesses as well as emphasizes the efforts that are being made at improvement where needed.