Dean’s Council BIPOC Retention Zoom Training | March 16th from 10:00 – 11:30 am

Over the past decade, academic affairs leaders have focused on hiring more BIPOC faculty to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student body. But even the best hiring plans fail without a plan for retention and engagement. Unfortunately, BIPOC faculty are more likely than white peers to be disengaged in their roles. Indeed, seventy percent of BIPOC faculty in one university system considered leaving their jobs in the past year.

This EAB expert-facilitated training focuses on addressing retention from a structural and policy perspective. Attendees will learn how colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada are rethinking promotion and tenure requirements, as well as key design features of equitable faculty evaluation and workload policy.

Strategies will include:

• Redesigning promotion and tenure policies to clarify expectations and recognize a wider range of faculty contributions to mission
• Providing training for promotion and tenure committees on shared DEIJ definitions and avoiding common biases in evaluation
• Equipping department chairs and other faculty leaders to track and manage faculty workload, and recognize elements of BIPOC faculty workload that are often unreported in campus systems.

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