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ADVANCE Faculty Recruitment Tutorial
Key Behaviors to Advance Underrepresented Faculty New Hires
General Collegial
Creating opportunities for collaboration
- Introduce to other faculty on and off campus
- Invite to collaborate
- Facilitating students to work with them
Enhancing competency through mentoring
- Teaching about funding mechanisms & publication strategies
- Teaching about strategies for getting things done on campus
- Advocating for resources for them
- Encourage participation in faculty development programs
Providing resources for doing research
- Sharing data sets
- Sharing equipment facilities
- Writing in on grant proposals
Generating support through community
- Include in social opportunities
- Invite to join in hosting speakers
- Encourage social activities for department
- Being available to help
Policy & Administrative
Regularly monitor health and welfare of department/college
- Everyone's needs being met? All voices heard?
- Is workload distributed evenly across department?
- Are faculty accomplishments rewarded sufficiently?
Workload & Success
- Teaching - course load, course types, course materials
- Service - student advising load, avoid token assignments
Evaluation
- Tenure & promotion process transparency
- Early and sufficient feedback
- Wider criteria for gauging excellence
- Balance in traditional/nontraditional types of work
Institute flexible and accommodating policies & practices
- Dual career issues
- Family leave and tenure clock extensions
- Transitional support
