The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement works closely with schools and departments as they strive to reach their diversity goals. The fall of 2020 marked fourteen years of faculty diversity support at Columbia. In addition to the Faculty Diversity Initiative’s long-standing recruitment programs, we were pleased to launch several new program elements::
Faculty Cluster Hiring. Cluster hiring is an intentional approach to recruitment that brings in multiple faculty engaged in related scholarship, often with transformative effect. In addition to our existing LGBTQ Scholarship Cluster hiring initiative, we have added two additional cluster hire initiatives:
- STEM Cluster Hiring. We will offer additional research funding to facilitate similar successes in STEM areas across the university, which continue to face challenges in yielding the highly sought-after underrepresented candidates that they have identified for faculty positions.
- Faculty recruitments in the area of Race and Racism scholarship. We are at a critical juncture in our nation’s collective consciousness, a time when structural racism and its pernicious effects are being laid bare. There will be two rounds of Race and Racism Scholarship faculty recruitments to build upon the existing expertise at Columbia and accelerate hiring in this area.
Accelerated recruitment of Black, Latinx and other underrepresented tenured or tenure-track faculty in the fields of Social Work, Sociology, Arts, and African American and African Diaspora Studies.
