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UMBC + InterfolioAchieving Faculty Search Diversity with ByCommittee
August 25, 2016, 2pm EST
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Katherine Kelly, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Interfolio
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Autumn Reed, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator for Faculty Diversity Initiatives &Director, STRIDE, UMBC
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Wazhma Saidi
Client Success Manager
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Webinar Agenda: UMBC + Interfolio: Achieving Faculty Diversity
Search Strategies
UMBC’s strategies for assisting search committees in fair, unbiased recruitment and diverse hiring.
UMBC’s STRIDE
Philosophy around working with a critical diversity approach; hiring plans for committees.
Interfolio Tools
Brief overview of Interfolio’stools for assisting diversity in recruitment.
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Interfolio Background
• Founded in 1999 with Dossier, system for individual scholars applying to academic positions
• Launched ByCommittee in 2012, a platform for committees, staff, and administrators making academic decisions
• ByCommittee includes many features designed to help support faculty diversity initiatives on campus, as well as tools to promote equity in both recruitment and tenure.
• ByCommittee is now at over 125 institutions.
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Poll #1
How would you rate your universities’ demonstrated commitment to diversity?
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Part One
UMBC’s STRIDE
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UMBC Institutional Background
• Public• Mid-size• Predominantly White (PWI)• Carnegie High-Research• Celebrating 50th Anniversary• Highly Diverse Study Body• 2003 ADVANCE IT Awardee
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Faculty Searches: Diversity Hiring Plan
• Developed by ALL Search Committees Prior to Authorization of Search
• Components• Justification/rationale of search committee composition• Outline of active recruiting plan to assemble the most diverse pool
of applicants• Initial discussion of how the job advertisement will incorporate
diverse and inclusive language. • Preliminary discussion of evaluation criteria and interviewing
protocols
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UMBC STRIDE
Wayne Lutters
Associate ProfessorInformation Systems
Susan McDonough
Associate ProfessorHistory
Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence
Chris Murphy
Chair and ProfessorPsychology
Kevin Omland
ProfessorBiological Sciences
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Mission and Approach
MissionTo develop a critical mass of diverse faculty at all levels of the university along with a critical mass of faculty committed to the principles of diversity and inclusive excellence.
Approaches• Critical Diversity (Herring and Henderson,
2013) • Social Justice (Byrd, 2014)• Focused Conversation – Community Based
Approach
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Services
• College-Specific Consultations• Departmental Consultations• Search Committee Consultations• One-on-One Consultations• University-Wide Focused Conversations
• Planning for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence in Your Search• Developing Shared Evaluation Metrics• Recognizing and Reducing Implicit Bias in the Application Review Process• Best Practices for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence in the Interviewing and
Selection Process• Departmental Climate (coming soon)
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Sample STRIDE Focused Conversation
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Q&A
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Poll #2
Do faculty searches at your school take statistical data on the diversity of the applicant pool into consideration?
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Part Two
Leveraging Interfolio’s ByCommittee for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence in Your Faculty Searches
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UMBC-Leveraging Interfolio for Diversity
• Tracking the Diversity of the Pool During Search Life Cycle with EEO Form and Combined Reports
• Developing Share Evaluation Criteria with STRIDE
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Interfolio’s ByCommittee Faculty SearchCombined Reports
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Interfolio’s ByCommittee Faculty SearchEEO Form
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Interfolio’s ByCommittee Faculty SearchEEO Report
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NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2014U.S. Citizens by Ethnicity, Race, and Major Field of Study, 2014
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NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2014Doctoral Recipients, by Sex and Subfield, 2014
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Interfolio’s ByCommittee Faculty SearchCommittee View
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Part Three
Interfolio’s ByCommittee
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Recap: ByCommittee for Faculty Search Diversity
• Before a search• Establish compliant EEO forms• Designate an approver
• During a search• Check applicant form responses • Flag positions that do not meet diversity standards• Define criteria for consistency in committee reviews
• After a search• Report on EEO responses against many variables
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Q&A
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For Further Inquiry
• For more information about UMBC ADVANCE visit: www.umbc.edu/advance
• For more information about UMBC Faculty Recruitment visit: www.umbc.edu/facultydiversity
• For more information about ByCommittee visit: www.interfolio.com
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Webinar Save-the-Date
University of Texas at Austin + Interfolio: IntegrationsSeptember 21, 2pm EST
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Thank you!