DEI Resources Related to Faculty Hiring

22-23 Essential Steps for Building Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Into the Search Process

  • Detailed guide for building justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion into each part of the search process at Cal State East Bay

Resources for Broadening Job Advertising

  • Not sure where to start in diversifying where to advertise your position? Check out this resource guide. 

22-23 Tenure Track Search Process Procedures from the Office of Academic Affairs

  • Step-by-step guide and technical documentation for the search process

Position Announcement Template for 22-23 from the Office of Academic Affairs

  • Downloadable template to use in creating your position announcement

Link to PageUp & PageUp Instructions

  • Access to PageUp and help guide

8 Practical, Sustainable Steps to a Diverse Faculty from The Chronicle of Higher Education 

  • Concrete ideas and examples of how to change hiring practices to recruit more diverse applicants

Designing Academic Hiring Strategy to Meet Faculty Diversity Goals from EAB 

  • Presentation slides with concrete examples and ways to change hiring strategies to increase diversity of applicants and candidates

Interrupting the Usual: Successful Strategies for Hiring Diverse Faculty by Smith, et al. in The Journal of Higher Education

  • Seminal article on the successful strategies of using diversity indicators in job position descriptions and special hires to increase the diversity of faculty hired; interesting to note that even with special hires being crucial to the hiring of underrepresented faculty, the majority of those who benefited were White (65%)

Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring by Marybeth Gasman (ebook access available via the Cal State East Bay Library using above link)

 

Faculty Recruitment: Replacing Dysfunctional Practices with Good Practices from Faculty Diversity: Removing the Barriers by JoAnn Moody

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How a Search Committee Can Be The Arbiter of Diversity from The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Before Starting a Faculty Search, Take a Good Look at the Search Committee from The Chronicle of Higher Education 

  • Ideas and steps to take to ensure a diverse search committee make-up and a diverse applicant pool

13 Common Hiring Biases to Watch Out For from Harver

  • Concise summary of common biases and how to counteract them–good resource to review together as a search committee AND decide how to hold each other accountable for any biases showing in evaluations before reviewing applicants 

Responding to Microaggressions or Bias from Diane J. Goodman

  • Useful checklist of different techniques, with examples, of how to respond or intervene when you witness a microaggression or bias