DIVERSITY RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the proportionate presence of African-American and Black, tenuretrack faculty is a critical issue affecting the College’s mission toward academic
excellence and true inclusiveness,
WHEREAS, the College has not significantly increased the presence of AfricanAmerican, and Black, tenure-track over its long institutional history,
WHEREAS, the failure to hire and promote African-American and Black, tenuretrack faculty is a systemic one which cannot be effectively addressed by individual
departments or persons,
WHEREAS, African-American and Black faculty are hard-to-hire par excellence,
WHEREAS, the College has permitted going off the faculty salary scale for other
hard-to-hire faculty,
WHEREAS, detailed production and consideration of relevant data, formulation of
an effective plan of hiring, and commitment to a timeline are essential to hiring
appropriate numbers of African-American and Black faculty,
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Academic Senate form a special task force to: 1)
address the issue of hiring African-American and Black faculty; 2) study the
advisability of going off the faculty salary scale when necessary in order to hire
hard-to-hire, African-American and Black faculty, and 3) submit, upon
investigating and consulting with other pertinent campus and off-campus
resources, an independent report, including recommendations for further action,
to the Senate.