Recruiting a Racially Diverse, Culturally Competent Faculty

Retaining a racially diverse faculty starts with strategic and comprehensive recruiting efforts.

The composition of student bodies is changing significantly, as the numbers of students of color continue to grow on campus.

Faculty selection processes need to change, also, to better meet the needs of the current generation of college students.

To keep pace with changing times, higher education institutions must continue to focus on recruiting and retaining a more diverse and culturally competent faculty.

Faculty members possessing multicultural competence are best able to teach, advise, and mentor school populations with increased racial diversity.

This means that the faculty selection process at your school deserves a closer look in order to ensure that it will enable you to reach the goal of attracting faculty members committed to diversity, inclusion and social justice.

Presenters Vernon Wall, M.S., and, Kathy Obear, Ed.D., delivers clear-cut strategies your school can use to increase the racial diversity of final applicant pools as you approach the crucial task of hiring new faculty members.

This 90-minute seminar covers critical aspects of the faculty search and hiring process:

• Selecting and training search committee chairs
• Improving the multicultural competence of search committee members
• Increasing the size of thepool of promising candidates through networking, mentoring, internship and fellowship programs
• Marketing and advertising considerations
• Deciding upon core competencies and abilities necessary for a position
• Writing the job description
• Developing helpful interview questions
• Evaluating candidate abilities with preferred competencies
• Contacting references
• Choosing the final candidate
• Making the job offer
• Creating a transition team to assist each new hire

This seminar is offered in partnership with the Social Justice Training Institute.

Who will benefit from this seminar?

This seminar is recommended for all campus representatives charged with recruiting and hiring new faculty members, including:

• Search Committee Members
• Academic Leaders: Directors, Deans, Department Heads
• Faculty Division Leaders
• Chief Diversity Officers
• Members of Diversity Committees and Task Forces

Our presenters

Vernon Wall, M.S., is the director of Educational Programs and Publications for the American College Personnel Association. He is also one of the Founding Faculty of the Social Justice Training Institute. He is a nationally known speaker in the areas of social justice and leadership styles and has served in a number of higher education positions at Iowa State, the University of Georgia, UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Kathy Obear, Ed.D., is president of Alliance for Change Consulting. She has over 25 years of experience as a diversity trainer and organizational development consultant. She is a Founding Faculty of the Social Justice Training Institute. She excels at focusing on the dynamics of race and racism while helping individuals to navigate difficult dialogues and respond more effectively to emotional, “hot button” events. She has previously worked in Student Affairs positions at several different colleges, and she has given speeches and facilitated training sessions at hundreds of universities across the country.

The success of students of color on your campus requires a renewed commitment to recruiting culturally competent faculty members to teach them. Learn how your institution can foster greater diversity and inclusion by enrolling in this important seminar today.

Includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators

Viewing a Magna Online Seminar on CD as a team can help leverage unique insights, foster collaboration, and build momentum for change. This seminar includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators which provides step-by-step instructions for generating productive discussions and thoughtful reflection. You also get guidelines for continuing the conversation after viewing, implementing the strategies discussed, and creating a feedback loop for sharing best practices and challenges.

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