UMBC + InterfolioAchieving Faculty Search Diversity with ByCommittee

August 25, 2016, 2pm EST

Katherine Kelly, Ph.D.

Senior Director, Interfolio

Autumn Reed, Ph.D.

Program Coordinator for Faculty Diversity Initiatives &Director, STRIDE, UMBC

Wazhma Saidi

Client Success Manager

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.

Poll #1

How would you rate your universities’ demonstrated commitment to diversity?

Part One

UMBC’s STRIDE

UMBC Institutional Background

• Public• Mid-size• Predominantly White (PWI)• Carnegie High-Research• Celebrating 50th Anniversary• Highly Diverse Study Body• 2003 ADVANCE IT Awardee

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

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

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

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)

Sample STRIDE Focused Conversation

Q&A

Poll #2

Do faculty searches at your school take statistical data on the diversity of the applicant pool into consideration?

Part Two

Leveraging Interfolio’s ByCommittee for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence in Your Faculty Searches

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

Interfolio’s ByCommittee Faculty SearchCombined Reports

Interfolio’s ByCommittee Faculty SearchEEO Form

Interfolio’s ByCommittee Faculty SearchEEO Report

NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2014U.S. Citizens by Ethnicity, Race, and Major Field of Study, 2014

NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2014Doctoral Recipients, by Sex and Subfield, 2014

Interfolio’s ByCommittee Faculty SearchCommittee View

Part Three

Interfolio’s ByCommittee

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

Q&A

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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