Bronze Award Action Plan Update

Faculty with Disabilities Workgroup

Improve the recruitment, hiring, and retention of faculty with disabilities at UC Santa Cruz.

In progress – The workgroup conducted a report to better understand the scope of the barriers to hiring and retaining faculty with disabilities. Actions from the plan are being implemented.

Faculty Equity Advocate (FEA) program

Increase the diversity of the UC Santa Cruz faculty through inclusive hiring and retention practice so they represent the population of California and our students. This program involves 10 faculty members, two in each of the five disciplinary divisions, who are working towards improving both recruitment and retention of faculty on our campus. 

Completed – FEA program launched. More information available on the Academic Affairs website. 

Inclusive Hiring for Unit 18 lecturers

Explore which Academic Senate recruitment practices can be applied to lecturer recruitments with the aim to increase the diversity of Unit 18 lecturers at UC Santa Cruz.

Planning Stages – Plan will be created in the 2024-25 academic year.

Short-term waivers of recruitment for GSIs

Create a specific waiver of recruitment to allow the hiring of recently graduated graduate student instructors as lecturers in the summer after their graduation. 

Completed – More information is available on the Academic Personnel Office website

Creation of a standing faculty salary equity review process

Create a process whereby faculty can request a salary equity review that can look holistically at faculty salaries in terms of performance and pay equity. 

In progress

Example service portfolios commonly considered in personnel review

Include a means to include traditionally invisible labor, including service labor, more visible within the campus review process through the use of portfolios. 

In progress

Divisional Faculty Networking groups

Relaunch the Physical and Biological Sciences pilot STEM-centered “marcro” faculty networking group, potentially extending that networking group to engineering faculty.

Planning stages

Department chair workshop

Develop an intensive 2-day summer retreat in equity-minded leadership for department chairs

Completed – Offered annually

Family-friendly guidance

Create a document on family-friendly guidance and practices to better accommodate family-related considerations for department chairs.

In progress

Lactation Rooms

Create up-to-date and accurate information about lactation rooms on campus, including locations and description of rooms and available equipment that is publicly available and easily accessible.

In progress

Review of inclusive hiring practices

Review the pilot program requiring faculty applicants to submit a statement of contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. If the data demonstrates that faculty diversity has improved since the pilot was initiated, solidify it as a permanent requirement.

Completed – Statements of contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion have been institutionalized in UC Santa Cruz’s faculty hiring process.

Divisional surveys

In collaboration with the vice chancellor of diversity, equity, and inclusion, extend the divisional faculty climate survey studies currently run in Physical and Biological Sciences and Baskin Engineering to the Divisions of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Planning stages

Campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategic plan 

The vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion will lead a collaborative process to formulate a Campus DEI Strategic Plan.

In progress