The Rutgers Faculty Diversity Hiring Initiative is being extended through June 2024 through $20 million in additional funding.
Rutgers Hiring Initiative Gets $20M
Initiative To Increase Faculty Diversity Extended Through 2024
The Rutgers Faculty Diversity Hiring Initiative is being extended through June 2024 through $20 million in additional funding. Under the initiative Rutgers will hire, mentor and retain faculty of diverse and underrepresented backgrounds. Since 2016, almost $22 million has supported 79 new faculty members.
“We are building on a program that is already making a difference,” Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi said, noting the program, totaling more than $40 million, represents the commitment by the university to assist schools and departments in attracting and retaining an outstanding faculty that embodies Rutgers’ dedication to diversity and inclusion.
Funds from the initiative provide half the salary support for the first three years of each newly hired faculty member’s service at Rutgers, mentoring and retention.
“While faculty within departments and schools ultimately make hiring decisions for individual faculty members, these funds provide the resources our departments need to recruit, hire and retain outstanding faculty from groups who have been traditionally underrepresented in their fields,” Barchi said. “We want to help ensure that our faculty better reflects the broad diversity of our students and the state of New Jersey.”
As one of the most diverse major public research universities in the nation, Rutgers is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion throughout the university, said Barbara Lee, senior vice president for Academic Affairs at Rutgers University.
“This initiative will help us continue to support efforts to attract more faculty from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds whose expertise and unique experiences will guide our students, provide exceptional health care and discoveries, and advance collaborative innovations that improve lives in our communities and around the world,” Lee said.
Read more at: https://news.rutgers.edu/40-million-commitment-faculty-diversity/20190403?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rutgerstoday#.XLDgTuhKjcu
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