Charge of the President's Task Force
The charge of the President’s Task Force on Faculty Diversity is to conduct a comprehensive program review of faculty diversity efforts at each campus modeled after the Bureau of State Audit’s review of faculty gender equity in 2001-02.
The program review will include an analysis of faculty headcount and hiring data over time and by field to analyze trends and identify campus-specific concerns. Teams of 3-4 faculty members from the task force will conduct site visits at each campus. The site visits will include meetings with senior academic administrators, members of senate Committees on Academic Personnel (CAPs), senate diversity committees, graduate deans, department chairs, and campus diversity committees. The review will be concluded with a written report focused on successful strategies for increasing faculty diversity. Rosina Becerra, Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Diversity at UCLA, will chair the task force.
The importance of the program review is to bring these issues to the attention of campus faculty and academic administrators at all levels. UC’s experience with the gender equity audit was that hiring behavior changed even as the audit was being conducted, prior to the release of the audit report and the implementation of its recommendations. The gender equity audit also prompted important changes in UC policy and practices with regard to faculty gender equity at the campus and systemwide level.
The task force will report to the Council of Chancellors, produce a written report of their findings and convene a systemwide Summit on Faculty Diversity, a meeting of faculty and academic administrators in the spring of 2006.