Faculty Recruitment: Diversifying the Faculty

1. Faculty Recruitment: Diversifying the Faculty John Pelissero, Provost October 13, 2014

2. Goals: Why Diversify the Faculty? • Diversity is integral to the success of our mission  • Helps to recruit a more diverse student body • Helps to recruit and retain women and faculty of color • Expands the curriculum, adding new perspectives to the learning environment • It is vital to what we do, and is a promise we make to those we serve: our students • Persistence of faculty at the university is often an issue of institutional fit—what a university is and aspires to be

3. Loyola Full-Time Faculty in 2014: GenderLakeside and Health Sciences Divisions

4. Race/Ethnicity of Loyola Faculty in 2014

5. Best Practices in National Recruitment for Diverse Faculty • Establish a pool of qualified minority faculty applicants • Attend disciplinary conferences • Attend conferences for minority doctoral students • Contact department chairs at (e.g.HBCUs) to identity potential applicants (Source: Rose, 2010)

6. What helps to attract diverse candidates? • Mission and Diversity Statement: Loyola University Chicago is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer with a strong commitment to hiring for our mission and diversifying our faculty. As a Jesuit Catholic institution of higher education, we seek candidates who will contribute to our mission and strategic plan to deliver a Transformative Education in the Jesuit tradition. Candidates are encouraged to consult our website to gain a clearer understanding of Loyola's mission at http://www.luc.edu/mission/index.shtml and our focus on transformative education at http://www.luc.edu/transformativeed/ Applications from women and minority candidates are especially encouraged.

7. Actions that Facilitate Recruiting a Diverse Faculty • Position Descriptions • Include a statement on diversity opportunities • Structure positions to increase likelihood of attracting diverse candidates • Language in job ads: • Research on issues relevant to ethnic minorities • Teach courses on diversity themes • Specialty open, but emphasis on interdisciplinary, multicultural topics…..

8. What helps to attract diverse candidates? • Some Colleges Use Phrases Such As: • “We are seeking candidates who have a strong commitment to teaching undergraduate and graduate students from diverse cultural backgrounds” • “We are strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity” (Source: Rose, 2010)

9. Actions that Facilitate Recruiting a Diverse Faculty • Advertising • Craft ads to emphasize expertise that will enhance the attractiveness of the position • Place ads in diverse affinity group publications of your professional organizations • Place ads in publications targeted to the minority academic community: (Office of Faculty Administration will do this) • Diverse Issues in Higher Education • Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine • Chronicle of Higher Education

10. Actions that Facilitate Recruiting a Diverse Faculty • Search Committee Activities • Start with a diverse committee; invite members from other academic units, if necessary • Develop search screening protocol to assure fairness, consistency and uniformity • Avoid ranking candidates at each stage • Consider Departmental/Institutional needs broadly

11. Actions that Facilitate Recruiting a Diverse Faculty • Recruit, don’t simply “search” • Contact colleagues to request nominations of candidates • Contact diverse faculty who have excellent reputations • Recruit at fairs and conferences where minority faculty candidates might be in attendance • Mailings to academic discipline minority caucus and to other special interest groups • Send personal letters inviting candidates to apply and/or to refer others • Personal approach to potential applicants at academic conferences or professional meetings to encourage applications • Recruiting trips to universities that have high minority PhD graduates (Source: Rose, 2010)

12. Actions that Facilitate Recruiting a Diverse Faculty • During Interview Process: • Discuss research opportunities with specific groups or in specific situations • Emphasize the presence of other faculty of color • Inform about faculty development opportunities and mentoring • Ask candidates how they would contribute to diverse perspectives on campus, in curriculum • Share campus and community demographics Source: From VCU “Strategies for Successfully Recruiting Diverse Faculty”

13. Share Campus Demographics: Loyola Students in 2014 • Gender: • Women 64.2% • Men 35.7% • Race/Ethnicity: • White 62.8% • African Am. 5.9% • Asian/P.I. 9.4% • Hispanic 11.6% • Native Am. 0.1% • Multi-Racial 4.7% • International Students: 5.3% • First Generation College: 21%

14. Diverse Topics and Perspectives in the Loyola Classroom *Freshmen and Seniors better than our Carnegie Class peer group

15. Diversity Culture on Campus • Freshmen better than our Urban, Jesuit and Carnegie Class peer groups. • Seniors better than our Carnegie Class peer group

16. Actions that Facilitate Recruiting a Diverse Faculty • Interview Process (continued) • Go beyond the normal teaching/research presentations and meetings with departmental faculty and the dean, include: • Meeting other diverse faculty and administrators • Meeting with diverse students • Meeting with HR Manager or Chief Diversity Officer • Identify Interdisciplinary Faculty who have similar scholarly interests so candidate may follow-up • Go beyond the normal “campus tour”: provide an itinerary that allows candidate to get a feel for our diverse campus and Community (Faculty/Students)

17. Actions that Facilitate Recruiting a Diverse Faculty • Committee recommendations: • Evaluate candidates based on published criteria • Evaluate candidates objectively—summarize strengths and weaknesses of each • Include information on how each candidate would add to the diversity of the faculty • Use the Loyola evaluation system that embraces the elements of a successful search: mission, diversity, scholarship, teaching, outreach, etc. • Do not rank the finalists

18. Diversity Resources for Search Committees • Diverse Issues in Higher Education (www.diverseeducation.com) • Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine (http://www.hispanicoutlook.com/) • Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Diversifying the Faculty:A Guidebook for Search Committees (AAC&U, 2002). • Association of American Colleges and Universities, resources on Diversity and Women in Higher Education (www.aacu.org) • American Council on Education, Looking Beyond the Numbers, 2009.

19. References • Moody, JoAnn, Rising Above Cognitive Errors: Guidelines for Search, Tenure Review, and Other Evaluation Committees (Diversity on Campus, 2007). • Rose, John T. “Recruiting a More Diverse Faculty: Role of Search Committee,” CUNY, April 14, 2010. • Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU),“Strategies for Successfully Recruiting Diverse Faculty,” undated.