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Yale ups the ante on hiring diverse faculty.(Yale University )
Not content seeking just improvement, the president and provost at Yale University CT announced a seven-year plan to hire more diverse faculty with precise quantitative goals.
In an email to faculty, they announced that over seven years they expect to hire 30 new female faculty members in departments where they are underrepresented--which would be a 20% increase overall and an 83% increase in targeted departments, notably the physical sciences. The goal for minority faculty members is 30, a 30% increase.
"We think the presence of goals will be a spur to great seriousness about the effort," commented Jon Butler, dean of the graduate school.
Yale's 1999 diversity campaign had mixed results. Between the academic years of 1999-2000 and 2004-2005 in the faculty of the arts and sciences, female faculty members increased 43%, from 112 to 160, including those in biology and the physical sciences from 15 to 32. Over the same years and department, minority faculty increased 30%, from 67 to 87.
Strategies for the increase focus on search committee initiatives. Each search committee will have a faculty member acting as the "diversity representative who will be responsible for ensuring ...
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