Mandatory Training 

 

• Equal Opportunity must be a factor and consideration at every stage of faculty recruitment and selection. Information contained in this training reflects the steps that must be taken to comply with the University's Faculty Recruitment and Hiring procedure. Searches will not proceed until all members have completed the training. Please visit the EOP Search Committee Tutorial to learn more. 

• The work of search committees is a valuable service to the university. Faculty excellence is foundational to organizational excellence and is predicated upon the dedicated work of individual committee members in attracting the best possible applicant pool. The VPFRR has thus put together a tutorial and set of resources for Search Committees. Please visit the VPFRR Search Committee Tutorial to learn more.

 

Implicit Bias

 

• Project Implicit, hosted by Harvard provides the Implicit Association Test. Project Implicit was founded in 1998 by three scientists – Tony Greenwald (University of Washington), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Brian Nosek (University of Virginia). The goal of the organization is to educate the public about implicit social cognition and to provide a “virtual laboratory” – a novel way for researchers to collect data on the Internet.The IAT measures the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy). The main idea is that making a response is easier when closely related items share the same response key. Take the Implicit Association Test.

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