Using Research and Data to Improve the Faculty Search Process in STEM

Wednesday April 11, 2012: Hosted by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco

The first Roundtable in the “California Challenge” series was attended by UC faculty and academic administrators from all ten campuses. Presenters and attendees examined and evaluated search practices to address ways to improve diversity outcomes in faculty searches throughout the UC system. View presentations from the Roundtable here:

Empirically-Based Search Practices (pdf) - Presentation by Catherine Albiston, Professor of Law & Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

Structural Causes of Inequities in STEM Hiring and Promising Strategies for Increasing Diversity (pdf) - Presentation by Kimberlee Shauman, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Davis

Are Women Underrepresented Among STEM Faculty Because of Bias in the Search Process? (pdf) - Presentation by Leah Haimo, Professor of Biology & Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Riverside

Using Research and Data to Improve the Faculty Search Process (pdf) - Presentation by Angelica Stacy, Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty & Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley