Diversity: Faculty and other academic personnel
Enhancing Faculty Diversity at UC Santa Barbara, Department of Economics.
UC Santa Barbara, 2017-2018
Project Principal Investigators
- Leila Rupp
- Kelly Bedard
Project Abstract
The Department of Economics prepared a comprehensive plan that builds on a cluster hire approach to construct a strategic initiative that focused on four key components: searching across multiple ranks and fields, advertising, attractive research start-up packages, and enhanced faculty and staff time to focus on a broad search. A key component of this project was the adaptation of a successful intervention from year one of the Advancing Faculty Diversity program with the creation of a postdoctoral fellowship to precede the assistant professorship, as well as enhancement of the endowed chair start-up package to support work with underrepresented minority and low-income students.