3 reasons your faculty searches aren’t yielding diverse candidates

In a typical academic job search, the search committee posts an advertisement online, the committee chair emails their friends and colleagues to let them know of the job opening, and then the committee waits to see what happens. This assumes, often incorrectly, that the best candidates will not only find their way to the job listing, but that the advertisement itself will be enough to attract a diverse pool of candidates.

The most successful search committees rely on active faculty networks to identify and create relationships with talented underrepresented candidates both before and during the search process.

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