Hiring Practices and Diversity

CFAES Recommended Best Practices for Inclusive Excellence

Participate in 1-hour Inclusive Excellence Training

Conduct a departmental demographic audit-what is the current departmental profile (Kathy Lechman or your HRP can provide the information).

Assess the research specialties of current faculty members, are there areas that are not represented?

• View OSU HR video on best practices for inclusive excellence in hiring
• View OSU HR video on implicit bias
• Review Office of Academic Affairs Policy on Faculty Recruitment and Selection
• View OSU Faculty Resources for Recruitment and Hiring

Review the Department's Patterns of Administration (POA) and Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure (APT)

CFAES Specific Resources

• Definitions Related to Equity and Inclusion (PDF)
• Diversity and Inclusion Language for Faculty Searches (PDF)
• Contributions to Diversity-resource guide from UC San Diego
• Diversity Statement Examples part 1  from University of California, San Diego Center for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion (PDF)
• Diversity Statement Examples part 2 from University of California, San Diego Center for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion (PDF)
• Discovery Themes Search Strategies Report (Word)

Recruitment

• How to Recruit Using Social Media-University of Wisconsin Resource 
• The National Registry of Diverse & Strategic Faculty - A national database sponsored by Texas Tech.  Contact Kathy Lechman for log-in information
• Minority Post Doctoral Directory - MinorityPostdoc.org is the premier web portal on the minority postdoctoral experience especially in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. Contact Kathy Lechman for log-in information.
• Southeastern Region Education Board Doctoral Scholars Program Directory - The Scholar Directory is a database that showcases more than 1,000 accomplished doctoral scholars and successful Ph.D. recipients who are committed to pursuing careers in the professoriate. Contact Kathy Lechman for log-in information.

University Resources

• Special Opportunity Hiring - To incentivize and reward units for successfully recruiting of tenure-track faculty who will contribute to
• the diversity within the unit. 
• Dual Career Hiring - To enable dual-career academic appointments with partial salary support from The Office of Academics Affairs. 
• 5 Essential of Diversity  Hiring (OSU Discovery Themes)
• Hiring Resources
• General Resources on Hiring including resources on Implicit Bias; Comprehensive Equity; Faculty Guidebook and other resources on creating search committees with equity and inclusion as a focus.
• Higher Education Recruitment Consortium and OSU Advance

Links to job postings

• American Society of Agronomy
• Big 10 Academic Alliance - Doctoral Directory-searchable by discipline must request access
• Insight into Diversity - Magazine focused on higher education.
• Minorities in Natural Resource Conservation (MINRC)
• Minorities in Agriculture Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS)
• National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Education NCORE - Job site
• Diversity Trio - one site provides access to Asians in Higher Education; Blacks in Higher Education; Disabled in Higher Education; Hispanics in Higher Education; LGBT in Higher Education; Women and Higher Education; and Native Americans in Higher Education.

Group Specific Sites

• American Indian Science and  Engineering Society
• Association for Women in Science
• Committee on the Opportunities and Status of  Blacks in Agricultural Economics
• Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics
• Diversity in Agronomy, Crops, Soils & Environmental Sciences - part of the American Society of Agronomy
• Entomological Society of America-Black Entomologists
• Entomological Society of America-Women in Entomology Network
• The Hispanic Outlook Jobs
• HBCU Connect - will need to set up account as an employer
• The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
• Latinos in Higher Education 
• Rural Sociology Diversity Committee
• SANCAS Advancing Chicanos, Hispanics, & Native Americans in Science
• Women in Agronomy, Crops, Soils & Environmental Sciences Committee