Committee Appointment Principles, Guiding Questions, and Equity Framework

What should be our fundamental PRINCIPLE?

When beginning your process for COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS, use the following principle to create your procedure:

• Principle: Appointment procedures for diverse search committee members who actualize the institution’s diversity, equity, and inclusion values

What GUIDING QUESTIONS should we use?

As you design COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT PROCESS, ask the following questions:

• How does the composition of the hiring committee include voices who will make room for innovation, change, bridging of the equity gap, and student-centered pedagogy?
• How do our appointment choices support the value of representation of the diverse student body?
• Have we included students in the process?
• Will the committee members selected support the transformational change to diversify the faculty for student success?

Which EQUITY FRAMEWORK foundations should focus our work?

Use the following equity foundations to frame your COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT PROCESS:

II	Race-conscious	Critical and reflective of color-evasive ideology
IV	Systemically aware	Critical of institutional structures that perpetuate bias
V	Equity advancing	Willing to assess own practice and accountable to closing equity gaps