Doctoral Student University of Pennsylvania, United States
Creating equitable practices for hiring is key for a fair search process. Over the past three years, the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has launched a process of preparing faculty members for serving in such a role. Pre-search meetings prepare faculty with the tools necessary to understand the roles that people in their departments and within the school play to support an effective hiring process. Most recently, we added data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates to deepen faculty members’ understanding of the demographics of who earns degrees within their fields. This session will discuss how we structured pre-search meetings, developed tailored rubrics for each stage of the search process, and used publicly available data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to create a platform that showcases earned doctorate data in order to contextualize data on pathways to the professoriate.
