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This section provides valuable information about strategies adopted by some schools of public health to diversify their faculty.
RECRUITMENT OUTREACH STRATEGIES
1) Widely advertise positions using:
- National Journals associated with a specific discipline and/or
- National higher education news organizations
- Web-based journals, including the following:
2) Search or register with databases/directories, suggested ones include:
- The "2002 CIC Directory of Minority PhD, MFA and MLS Candidates and Recipients" and the "2002 CIC Directory of Women in Science & Engineering PhD Candidates and Recipients and Postdoctoral Appointees" available for on-line searching.
- Minority and Women Doctoral Directory (MWDD). MWDD is a registry that maintains up-to-date information on employment candidates who have recently received, or are soon to receive, a Doctoral or Masters degree in their respective field from one of approximately two hundred major research universities in the United States.
- National Minority Faculty Identification Program (NMFIP). An online service to member institutions and minority candidates seeking first-time or advanced faculty positions in higher education. Member institutions can search the database and download the desired vitae.
- The New England Directory of African-American, Latino/a, Native American and Asian American Doctoral Scholars (NEBHE). The NEBHE is a Directory of advanced graduate students of color who are in the last phase of the doctoral work at various campuses. Students listed here express a strong interest in joining the professoriate.
- Academic360. This Web site is a collection of Internet resources pulled together for people interested in academic positions. It includes links to faculty, staff, and administrative announcements. It provides direct links to job announcements from nearly 1,800 colleges and universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, and the UK.
3) E-mail job announcement to one of the following addresses:
4) Other Electronic Resources are:
5) Contact Professional Associations, such as:
National Association Of Black Professors
c/o Sarah Miles Woods
Department of Chemistry
430 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60605
(312) 791-0150
Indian Educator's Foundation
2021 Girard Street SE #202
Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-243-4088
National Alliance Of Black School Educators
2819 Georgia Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 483-1549
National Association Of University Women
1001 E Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 547-3967
Association Of Black Women In Higher Education
547 LaGuardia Place
New York, N.Y. 10012
(212) 785-7700
American Association Of University Women
1111 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
(800) 326-AAUW
Americans For Indian Opportunity
2001 19th Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
National Organization For Women
733 15th Street NW
2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 628-8NOW
Black Executives Exchange Program
National Urban League
500 E. 62nd Street
New York, N.Y. 10021
(212) 310-9000
Consortium Of National Hispanic Organizations
1030 15th Street, N.W.
Suite 1053
Washington, D.C. 20005
(202) 371-2100
National Council Of Administrative Women In Education
C/o Carol M. Poteat
1151 Assipee Road
West Hempstead, N.Y. 11552
(516) 764-3169
National Puerto Rican Forum
1946 Webster Avenue, 3rd Floor
Bronx, NY 10457-4249
(646) 792-1010
American Society Of Professional And Executive Women
1511 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 563-4415
6) The following are links where to post positions for African American, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, and Women, along with Periodicals/Listserv's/Newsgroups.
- African American
- Asian
- Hispanic
- Native American
- Women
- General Diversity Links
- Related Topics, Programs and/or Publications:
- Diversifying the Faculty by Caroline S.V. Turner
Diversifying the Faculty offers practical strategies for institutions interested in enhancing their faculty diversity. Best and promising hiring practices from a variety of institutions are interspersed throughout the text, and an extensive annotated bibliography and several appendices are included to help search committees and institutional leaders in this important challenge.
- Shattering the Silences
Shattering the Silences is a documentary film that explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education. The film illustrates ways in which teaching and research by scholars of color affect students, university communities, and the academic disciplines in which they work, and the triumphs and disappointments they encounter in their personal lives and academic careers. Ordering information is available through California Newsreel, phone: 415/621-6196.
- Compact for Faculty Diversity
Seeks to increase the number of minority students who qualify to teach in higher education. Program goals include securing multi-year financial aid for graduate students, building a culture of support for diversity on campus, providing mentoring and training for effective teaching, and building coalitions with other national programs.
- Southern Regional Education Board
Member of the Compact for Faculty Diversity that works with 16 member states to increase faculty diversity. SREB's Doctoral Scholars program works to increase the number of minority students earning doctorates in fields where they are most underrepresented. SREB also helps states establish independent, self-sustaining funding to support the Doctoral Scholars.
- Illinois Consortium for Equal Opportunity Program
This group provides two different programs for undergraduate and graduate students aimed at increasing the number of diverse faculty at Illinois schools.
- King-Chavez Parks Future Faculty Program
This program offers financial assistance to students pursuing master's degrees or doctorate degrees at Michigan institutes of higher education.
- Executive Summary from the Keeping our Faculties Symposium
On October 18-20, 1998, over 300 faculty, administrators, and students from 36 states participated in a national symposium entitled "Keeping Our Faculties: Addressing the Recruitment and Retention of Faculty of Color in Higher Education" sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. This meeting provided space for dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and policy makers aimed at generating useful strategies for increasing faculty diversity on college and university campuses. This executive summary distills information from the presentations of several symposium speakers with particular focus on their recommendations. A list of resources is also provided.
- The Impact of Social Interaction and Reward System Norms on Underrepresented Faculty by Annie Gubitosi-White
This case study examines the institution's cultural norms and how these norms affect underrepresented faculty. Study results identify social interaction and reward process norms and indicate that underrepresented faculty experience these norms differently than majority faculty. It also suggests that underrepresented faculty are often disadvantaged by these norms.
- Faculty Recruitment in Higher Education: Research Findings on Diversity and Affirmative Action by Debra Humphreys, AAC&U
This briefing paper debunks several myths about affirmative action and faculty hiring in higher education. It provides facts about the history of diversity in higher education, the actual numbers of women and minority faculty members in colleges and universities today, and how the recruitment process works.
- The Florida Education Fund (FEF)
FEF is a non-profit corporation with the goal of enhancing the educational advancement of historically underrepresented groups by offering programs and consulting services related to faculty and staff recruitment. Through their consulting work, FEF maintains and draws from a custom designed database of historically underrpresented faculty and adminstrators. This database stems directly from their McKnight Doctoral Fellowship (MDF) program and the Minority Particpation in Legal Education (MPLE) program.
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