Oct. 28, 2021
Presenters: Nancy Crowell, Shelley Leder, Alyson Ebaugh. Director of Human Resources Mark Bachmeier was present for the discussion.
Related accountability review points:
- Increase the percentage of Black and Brown tenure-track faculty, upper administration, and full-time staff by no less than 25% by 2023.
- All departments outline and make public how their hiring and tenure processes work.
- Implement exit interviews for students, faculty, and staff of color regarding their university experience. Compile data, publish the report.
Summary of presentation:
- This presentation provided an update on university employee recruitment and hiring practices as related to efforts to increase diversity across the App State workforce.
- Human resources has two main initiatives:
- Recruitment — Attracting diverse pools of highly qualified applicants for our vacant positions.
- Evaluation and Selection — Providing for the fair and equitable evaluation of all applicants for employment without bias or conflicts of interest.
- The presentation also discussed current data available to inform our understanding of the university experiences of faculty and staff of color and goals for improvement of this data collection.
Next steps:
- Develop and implement a new and effective employee exit interview process to help us better understand factors affecting voluntary turnover.
- Engage campus affinity groups proactively to help assess and improve the experience of underrepresented faculty and staff.
- Expand learning and organizational development programming with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion to positively impact inclusion.