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
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)
Rubrics for candidate review (Word)
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)
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.
Faculty Recruitment and Selection Policy
Faculty Recruitment Resource Guide
Higher Education Recruitment Consortium and OSU Advance
Rubrics from STRIDE (PDF)
Behavioral Based Interview Questions
Links to job postings
Big 10 Academic Alliance - Doctoral Directory-searchable by discipline must request access
Future Faculty Data Base - Need to set up an account to 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
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
HBCU Connect - will need to set up account as an employer
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Rural Sociology Diversity Committee
SANCAS Advancing Chicanos, Hispanics, & Native Americans in Science
Women in Agronomy, Crops, Soils & Environmental Sciences Committee