Faculty Search Committee Workshop

ADVANCE-Purdue and the Office of Vice President for Ethics and Compliance hold a joint interactive workshop on search and screen procedures. The goal of this workshop is to increase search committee members’ knowledge about current search and hire best practices and procedures leading to the employ of an excellent and diverse faculty. Department Heads, Associate Department Heads, Search Chairs and Search Committee members are invited to attend.

Letter from the Provost

Upcoming Fall 2019 Workshops

• Tuesday, August 20th from 1:00-5:00 pm Purdue Memorial Union East/West Faculty Lounges
• Monday, September 16th from 1:00-5:00 pm Purdue Memorial Union East/West Faculty Lounges
• Wednesday, November 6th from 1:00-5:00 pm Purdue Memorial Union East Faculty Lounge

Click here to RSVP

For questions contact De Bush, djbush@purdue.edu

Resources

• Big Ten Academic Alliance Professorial Advancement Initiative
• Diversity Focused Sample Job Ad Language
• Essential Elements to a Successful Search
• Office of the Vice President for Ethics and Compliance: Faculty Search and Screen Manual
• Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions
• Searching for Excellence and Diversity:  A Guide for Search Committee Chairs, UW-Madison Edition

Diversity Language Evaluation Guidelines

• Evaluating Plans Rubric
• Evaluating Awareness Rubric
• Evaluating Track Record Rubric

Past Workshop Attendees

• View list

OVPEC session for Support Staff

• Information and registration for OVPEC sessions for support staff

Recommended Readings

Please note: In most cases, if you are working off campus, you will need to supply your Purdue University ID and password to access the articles listed below.

Many thanks to Mary Dugan, Purdue University Resource Development Librarian for making links to these articles available.

• Bertrand, Marianne and Mullainathan Sendhil. "Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A field experiment on labor market discrimination." American Economic Review 94(2004): 991-1013.
• Dovidio, John F. and Samuel L. Gaertner. 2000. Aversive Racism and Selection Decisions: 1989 and 1999. Psychological Science 11: 315-319.
• Goldin, Claudia and Cecilia Rouse. "Orchestrating impartiality: The impact of 'blind' auditions on female musicians." American Economic Review 90(2000): 715-741.
• Smith, Daryl G. 2000. How to Diversify the Faculty. Academe 86: 48-52. (Available via Purdue University Libraries or from Academe)
• Steinpreis, Rhea, Katie A. Anders, and Dawn Ritzke. 1999. The impact of gender on the review of the curricula vitae of job applicants and tenure candidates: A national empirical study. Sex Roles 41: 509-528.
• Richeson, Jennifer and Richard J. Nussbaum. 2004. The Impact of Multiculturalism Versus Color-Blindness on Racial Bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 40: 417-423.
• Wennerås, Christine and Agnes Wold. 1997. Nepotism and sexism in peer-review. Nature. 387: 341-43.

Additional Reading

For readings discussed in the session and other relevant articles, please see ADVANCE Purdue Library: References on bias and assumption (this is a link to a list of articles that the libraries have made available).