Recruitment

Affirmative Action Executive Order 11246 requires Western Washington University to undertake proactive steps to achieve a diverse workforce when women and people of color are underutilized with respect to their availability in the labor force.

To ensure each recruitment search is following Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity guidelines, the Equal Opportunity Office coordinates a briefing with each search committee to discuss strategies, procedures, and resources that better enable the University to meet our Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity goals.

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Best Practices: Recruiting and Retaining Faculty and Staff of Color

As Western continues to seek more effective strategies to build a diverse workforce, we have looked to other higher education institutions across the nation who have been successful in doing this. This document, a "work in progress," reviews a number of best practices and strategies that have been effective in recruiting and retaining a more diverse faculty and staff. Among other strategies, funding initiatives, cluster hiring, and mentoring programs are described. This paper also reviews existing initiatives at Western that could be enhanced to more effectively recruit and retain diverse faculty and staff. Finally, there is a section in the document that focuses on enhancing search committee affirmative action processes.

As you review this initial work, please feel free to comment or send additional "best practices" or strategies that we could include in this paper.

Resources

EOO currently assists professional staff and faculty search committees target their outreach so they may diversify their applicant pools in accordance with the University's affirmative action plan. Download a copy of the Recruitment Outreach Resources for a list of recommended sites.

Recruitment Outreach Resources

Forms

The EO search briefing is coordinated prior to the finalization of recruitment documents and before the position can be advertised. Contact the EOO to set up a search briefing with drafts of the following documents:

• Request to Recruit
• Position Announcement
• Job Description
• Evaluation Matrix
• Recruitment Plan

All forms can be found on the Human Resources website.