Senate Diversity Committee Mission: Recruitment and Retention

1. Senate Diversity CommitteeMission: Recruitment and Retention Committee Members JenoBalogh Ruth Chavez Miri Chung Ramon Del Castillo Wilton Flemon, Chair Lesley Hathorn David Lynn Hoffman Lin Huang Ting Jiang Denise Mowder Nhu Nguyen Carmen Sanjurjo

2. Committee’s Charge • Our Charge: • ….shall inform and make recommendations …concerning questions, issues, policies, and practices related to the recruitment, hiring, retention, promotion, numbers, ratios, and diversity of the faculty…. • Our Focus: • Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of our faculty • Today • Diversity Committee is asking permission to move forward with three recommendations concerning recruitment and retention

3. Basis of Our Recommendations Concerning Recruitment and Retention • Gathered evidence from: • Faculty Climate survey results • 2010 & 2013 • Committee met and discussed these issues with: • Dr. Gesemia Nelson • Associate Professor Sociology. Faculty Climate Committee Consultant • Dr. Myron Anderson • Chief Diversity Officer for MSU • Dr. Percy Morehouse • Director of Equal Opportunity • Dr. Kamran Sahami • Faculty Senate President • Dr. Luis Torres • Deputy Provost

4. Recruitment • Committee met with Dr. Anderson about the current recruitment programs • Target of Opportunity (TOPS) • Designed to increase the ethnic, gender, and cultural diversity of our faculty by providing extra resources to recruiting and hiring diverse faculty. • Faculty Recruitment Incentive Program (FRIP) • Provides a vehicle to recruit from underutilized classes and promote professional development by facilitating the completion of graduate course work.

5. Recruitment Statistics: 2005 & 2012

6. First Recommendation • In order to attract racially & ethnically diverse candidates: • Recommend incorporating new language into job announcements that explicitly attract racial & ethnical diverse applicants. • Recommend requiring a minority advocate member be added to each hiring committee.

7. Second Recommendation • In order to attract racial & ethnic diverse candidates: • Initiate a two fold recruitment program: • Create a sister recruiting institution program with other Historical Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic American Colleges and Universities, Native American Colleges and Universities. • Create a Sabbatical or other Leave Exchange Programs with these same institutions

8. Retention • Committee met with Dr. Morehouse about complaints concerning discrimination • The Office of Equal Opportunity reports that complaints have steadily decreased in the past 3 years.

9. Retention • Using the Climate Survey, the Committee looked at survey questions concerning experiences with discrimination for people of color:

10. Retention • Using the Climate Survey, the Committee also looked at survey questions concerning campus climate for people of color: • Surveyed showed: Non-Whites were less likely to see the campus as friendly when compared to Whites.

11. Retention • Another campus climate survey question concerning levels of dissatisfaction for people of color with their Department: • Non-White professors were less likely to be satisfied with their department.

12. Recommendations by Committee • To address faculty experiences with discrimination and campus friendliness: • Recommendthat the Faculty Senate become more involved in and help support the discrimination grievance process in order to increase transparency.

13. Questions?The Diversity Committee thanks you for your time