STRIDE Workshops
These workshops are intended for faculty members with an important role in faculty recruitment efforts (e.g., search committee chairs and members and other key faculty). These training workshops review research driven best practices to recruit for diversity and excellence across every stage in the search process and is designed to help faculty produce diverse candidate pools and run effective searches. Learn more here.
STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program
The STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program provides UMass Amherst faculty with the opportunity to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in faculty recruitment. Learn more here.
STRIPE Training
As part of the Provost Office’s ongoing efforts to address institutional bias, UMass Faculty Diversity, in collaboration with UMass ADVANCE and in consultation with the Office of Faculty Development and the Academic Personnel Office, has launched training for members of college and department personnel committees. This new initiative is a form of applied implicit bias training intended to address the particular challenges of the faculty evaluation process and develop strategies to counteract bias. The workshop builds on the STRIDE faculty recruitment trainings that have been offered to address bias in recruitment. Please note that this is meant to complement, but is separate from the training offered by MSP, which focuses on the procedural aspect of personnel committee work. Learn more here.
Pathways Program
UMass Amherst offers two ways to increase the ranks of tenure-system faculty who will contribute to the campus goals of greater equity and inclusion. Faculty members can now be hired as part of the Tenure-Track Pathway or the Postdoctoral Pathway Fellowship based on their life experiences and scholarship, as well as their mentoring, teaching and outreach activities. See Appendix J in the Faculty Search Activities Guide for more information.
Additional Resources
The Provost’s Academic Personnel team administers tenure-track faculty hiring and has compiled a number of additional resources to help you in this process.