Committee Training Principles, Guiding Questions, and Equity Framework

What should be our fundamental PRINCIPLE?

When beginning your COMMITTEE TRAINING PROCESS, use the following principle to design your practices:

• Principle: Intensive and regular professional development with an emphasis on disrupting implicit bias

What GUIDING QUESTIONS should we use?

As you design COMMITTEE TRAINING, ask the following questions:

• Do we acknowledge that current hiring processes in our system sustain the equity gap?
• Are we as hiring committee members looking to hire faculty who look and act differently than dominant culture?
• Are we discussing equity-minded concepts in relation to merit and fit for this job announcement?
• Have we allowed time for sufficient processing with a committee comprised of individuals invested in the outcome?

Which EQUITY FRAMEWORK foundations should focus our work?

Use the following equity foundations to frame your COMMITTEE TRAINING:

IV	Systemically aware	Critical of institutional structures that perpetuate bias
V	Equity advancing	Willing to assess own practice and accountable to closing equity gaps