Improve Faculty Recruitment and Belonging on Campus
Just as student populations on college campuses have grown and evolved over the past several decades, faculty recruitment and retention is also evolving and remain persistent challenges for many institutions. Departments struggle not only to attract top candidates but also to support faculty in advancing to leadership roles and higher ranks. Strengthening faculty success begins at the departmental and hiring committee level, where efforts must go beyond filling current openings to also building long-term pipelines that prepare and support future faculty members.
Who’s responsible for ensuring diversity in hiring
The first step institutions should take toward improving faculty diversity is addressing the hiring process for positions that are already open. Improving diversity and inclusion in hiring often falls prey to the common adage that “if something is everyone’s job, it’s no one’s job.”
Though department chairs, deans, central administrators, and individual faculty members all have a role to play in diversifying the faculty, it’s important for leaders to clarify those roles at the outset. When responsibilities are aligned at the right level, and all individuals know their own responsibilities, they are less likely to duplicate work or assume that a key responsibility already has someone in charge.
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