Diversity: Faculty and other academic personnel
Building Bespoke Research-based Interventions to Diversify Faculty
UCLA, 2023-2024
Project Principal Investigators
Mitchell Chang, Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Professor of Education
Project Abstract
The proposed multiple component project aims to improve the usefulness of research in building both university and department level interventions toward improving climate for hiring and retaining faculty of color, especially for departments that have failed to make progress in diversifying their faculty. To achieve these multiple goals, this project seeks to conduct and apply research findings to design “bespoke” interventions, which specifically account for the unique differences in local context, circumstances, and audiences. This project includes four key components: (1) production of relevant research, (2) translation and communication of research findings for improving climate and hiring, (3) assessment of whether those lessons are evident in facilitating new interventions, and (4) fundraising through external grants to scale up promising aspects of the project to further advance research and practice. This project builds on past UCOP sponsored AFD projects and stands to improve institutional efforts to enhance faculty diversity by designing targeted strategies that help us better both produce
relevant research for advancing faculty diversity and integrate those lessons into existing routines, tools, and processes.