Searching for a Diverse Faculty: What Really Works

[...]we drew upon national data from the National Science Foundation's Survey of Earned Doctorates (2019) to determine the demographics of the pool of available applicants within relevant disciplines or fields. [...]we asked the chairs of search committees to complete a survey stating which commonly recommended practices their respective committees used. [...]one of the search committee's earliest tasks should be to identify especially promising candidates and encourage them to apply. Shaping Job Descriptions Of all the practices we studied, linking job descriptions to issues of gender, race, or ethnicity had the most impressive positive association with greater diversity.