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PRODiG Proposal Evaluation Criteria

Successful proposals will clearly outline how a campus will leverage PRODiG resources to reduce impediments to faculty diversity through the faculty search/hiring process and expand the pipeline of talented URM and WSTEM students into academic careers.

Successful proposals will, at a minimum, demonstrate the following:

• Alignment with the campus strategic diversity and inclusion plan.
• Thoughtful, probing assessment of the challenges and opportunities for increasing faculty diversity, increasing student pipelines and pathways into academic careers, and remedying historical underrepresentation in faculty hiring that is empirically supported by institutional data.

Participating campuses will be expected to ensure that their participation in PRODiG will demonstrate the adoption of these best practices to remove barriers to diversity in faculty hiring:

• Conducting full-time tenure clock faculty searches that are open and advertised broadly.
• Searches that are competitive (i.e. no search waiver).
• Contacting URM or WSTEM candidates who rise to the top of the application pool on the basis of merit.
• Maintenance of a dedicated, diverse PRODiG Committee broadly drawn from faculty and graduate pipeline "influencers" and leadership across the campus group focused on the impediments to faculty diversity, as well as strategies for removing them across the academic units.
• Indication of how campuses will financially support advancement of campus PRODiG goals, and the success of PRODiG-funded faculty at "appropriate" levels (e.g., funding professional development, participation in PRODiG Cohort activities, conference fees/travel, and professional association membership dues).
• Composition of the campus PRODiG Committee reflects diversity of perspectives and representation.
• Instituting exit interviews to understand the reasons why URM and WSTEM faculty separate from service on your campus.
• Maintaining an applicant tracking system within the Human Resources function.
• Identifying the available labor pool in all faculty searches, quantifying its diversity, and comparing its diversity to the diversity of the Applicant Pool.

All proposal elements, including any requests for funding and proposed actions, shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations.