Recruiting

  1. Improve visibility of Auburn University at institutions producing substantial numbers of minority doctorates.
  2. Actively solicit engagement with historically black colleges and universities in the region and nationally.
  3. Identify potential minority faculty candidates (i.e. GEM and NSF fellows) and provide this information to departments.
  4. Improve visibility of Auburn University within organizations supporting diversity (i.e. NSBE, NACME).
  5. Contact minority alumni and solicit nominations for faculty positions.
  6. Use the Alumni Engineering Council, departmental industrial advisory groups, and other alumni to identify qualified minority candidates currently in industrial or research positions.
  7. One member of each faculty search committee will be specifically charged with responsibility for minority issues. This responsibility will include ensuring that every effort is made to identify and recruit qualified minority candidates. Departments will be required to demonstrate that these efforts played a substantial role in the evaluation of said faculty.
  8. Investigate the establishment of a "grow your own" program. Such a program might include partnership with other academic institutions. It might include graduate fellowships for minority students identified during their undergraduate work at Auburn as possessing the interest in, and potential for becoming faculty members.
  9. Provide funds supporting hiring minority faculty with established records at the senior level.
  10. Ensure that all significant research funding solicitations address diversity issues.
  11. Our goals, objectives, and activities relative to faculty diversity will be widely available through this web page and the associated links.
  12. Access to diversity related materials will be made available to all faculty via this web site.
  13. Cooperate with appropriate organizations to conduct seminars, workshops, and programs that address minority and diversity issues. The objective of such activities will be for faculty to take ownership of the diversity issue.