1. JSOE Diversity Advisory Council Meeting Subgroup: Faculty Recruitment Members: Jeanne Ferrante, Rod Echols, Ahmed Elgamal, Tara Javidi, J. Luco, Jennifer Cha

2. Recommended Readings Devise Strategy that Counters Notion that Excellence and Diversity are Separate Issues Perhaps email links provided for the reference documents to all faculty (first one highly recommended) Reference Documents –Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Academic Settings, U. of Wisconsin (highly recommended, easy to browse through, informative) –Diversity and Equity in Higher Education, John Brooks Slaughter, Diversity Leadership Conference, 2004

3. Contributions to Diversity Need to create uniform (JSOE-wide) approach for contributions to diversity For both Current Faculty and Faculty Recruiting For Current Faculty: –Short Term: Email faculty up for academic reviews about stating their contributions to diversity in Biobib and that all chairs and dean will be addressing them in their letters Chair and Dean letters do address contributions to diversity in academic reviews –Long Term: Develop evaluation guidelines Have annual departmental reports submitted to Dean on overall contributions to diversity activities. Have web resource to make it easy for faculty to contribute- possibly under IDEA center?

4. Contributions to Diversity For Faculty Recruiting: –Short Term Supply all candidates with info about departmental and school diversity activities Ask all candidates to discuss their past and future contributions to diversity with department faculty. This will be written up and reported back to the search committee. –Long Term The Engineering-wide position should come with teaching relief for 2 years, and resources to help lead diversity initiatives.

5. Improving Recruiting Effectiveness Build list of alums/faculty who would like to help during applicant visits Develop and share a faculty script/checklist on how to do diversity recruiting Develop and grow a database of possible future faculty Short Term –Encourage faculty to use faculty applicant evaluation template –Provide candidates the opportunity to speak with others outside department about gender, race, climate –Provide information about family friendly policies to all candidates –Equity advisor will meet with department search chairs (or reps) and be updated about search activities at regular intervals