Learning Opportunities and Education

In collaboration with L&OD and OGI the NYU Global Inclusive Leadership and Management Institute (GILMI), was a three part course which examines the role of inclusive leadership in advancing global inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and access/accessibility (GIDBEA) within the work environment. GILMI offered mid- and upper-level staff and administrators in managerial/leadership roles the opportunity to learn about research, leadership theories, and inclusive leadership best practices and to develop their own approach to creating inclusive workplace environments.

These 1.5 hour workshops developed by the OIE and Academic Appointments aim to provide guidelines and effective strategies, and to discuss best practices for faculty searches for Search Committee members. Resources are provided for all faculty to review. All first-time members of search committees are required to participate in a workshop at the start of their service.

In Part I, these sessions provided an overview of best practices for designing a recruitment strategy that draws a diverse candidate pool. Participants will receive resources and tools to conduct broad outreach and will learn strategies to mitigate implicit/unconscious bias at each stage of the search process.

In Part II, the sessions focused on providing some of the best practices for executing inclusive recruitment strategies; reviewing some of the tools and resources that could be used to evaluate applicants fairly and explore recruitment metrics and discussed strategies that can be used if a candidate pool is not diverse. Case studies and embedded activities were used to engage participants in reflective practice, peer discussion, situational analysis and action planning.

Ensuring a Broad and Diverse Pool of Applicants

Sarah Bray; Advice to Deans, Department Heads and Search Committees for Recruiting Diverse Faculty (PDF), Inside Higher Ed, July 19, 2018
Zachary A. Smith, The Best Search Committees (PDF), The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 31, 2016
Stefanie K. Johnson, David R. Hekman, and Elsa T. Chan, "If There's Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There's Statistically No Chance She'll Be Hired", Harvard Business Review, April 26,
Recruiting for Diversity: A Training for Academic Search Committees (Video)
This Academic Impressions video can be viewed by clicking on the above link, and logging in with your NYUAD credentials. NYUAD has an institutional membership to Academic Impressions.
Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
Diversity Abroad Career Website

Best Practices in Faculty Searches

Alina Tugend, How to Keep Faculty Searches on Track (PDF), The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2019
Take one of the Harvard Implicit Association Tests to discover your own unconscious biases
Lucy Leske and Christine Pendleton, How a Search Committee Can be the Arbiter of Diversity, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 2, 2020

Bias in Faculty Recruitment

Matthew D. Lieberman, David Rock, Heidi Grant Halvorson, and Christine Cox, "Breaking Bias Updated: The SEEDS ModelTM" (PDF), Neuro Leadership Journal, Volume Six, November 2015
An Introduction to Unconscious Bias in Pictures (YouTube Video)

NYU Resources

Please note that some of these resources are accessible by NYUAD community members only.

A Commitment to a Truly Inclusive NYUAD, Vice Chancellor Westerman; July 2021
Guide to Diverse Faculty Searches (NYU public website)
The Search Process (NYU public website)
Faculty Candidate Evaluation Tool (PDF)
Sample Candidate Rating Form (Word Doc)
Allowable Questions at Interviews (PDF)
Interview Dos and Don’ts; see information in NYU Recruiting and Hiring Policy and Procedure for Full-Time Faculty and for Professional Research Staff - New York, District of Columbia, and California (NYU public website)
NYUAD Faculty Recruitment Process (PDF)
Faculty Self Governance
Posting Locations for Faculty Job Ads (Google Sheet available to NYUAD community members only)

COVID-19 Related Resources

The gender gap in academic research widened during the first wave of the pandemic (The Economist)

Other Useful Resources

NSF/NCSES list of top 20 doctorate-granting institutions, ranked by number of minority US citizens and permanent residents doctorate recipients

In collaboration with the Admissions Office, the Counselor’s Weekend sessions

The Introduction to IDBEA at NYUAD sessions for Counselor’s Weekend focused on IDBEA foundation and principles along with diversity at NYUAD and various counseling strategies and frameworks that can be used to prepare high school students for a global college education.

In collaboration with the Office of Faculty Advancement and Engagement, in these sessions, the OIE helped faculty become more self-aware of their identities and provided faculty with resources and tools on how to navigate and understand IDBEA at NYUAD.

In Part I, the OIE reviewed concepts and theories that are relevant to understanding IDBEA at NYUAD. Part II provided an overview of microaggressions including microassaults, microinsults, microinvalidations, and also micro affirmations.

This session helped participants explore basic IDBEA concepts along with their own diversity and social identities. Through discussion and sharing, participants were able to learn about how their own identity influences how they understand, assess, engage and teach students.

In these sessions, the OIE reviewed concepts and theories that are relevant to fostering IDBEA in their teams.

As part of the Office of Sustainability and Stewardship’s Net Zero Now Week, this interactive awareness session aimed to educate community members about the principles and importance of Environmental Justice, with a focus on IDBEA.

In collaboration with the NYUAD’s Core Curriculum, these weekly drop-in sessions will offer opportunities to meet other faculty, talk to administrators in the Core Curriculum, and engage in timely topics. Each week the topics of discussion and themes differ and at times there are guest presenters.