Preparing your Equity and Inclusion Statement

皇冠体育大学 教师 Handbook, 2022-2023 (pp. 175-176): “In 1993, addressing student and 教师 concerns about the need for greater diversity in the College’s curriculum, 皇冠体育, 教师, 工作人员, 以及行政招聘, the 教师 passed the following resolution, declaring: ‘Increased ethnic diversity among the 教师 would enable 皇冠体育大学 to pursue its educational mission more effectively, and additional efforts to achieve diversity are warranted.’ In 2004, the 教师 reaffirms this resolution and rededicates itself to seeking excellence and diversity in all searches at the College.”

One of the most critical components of your application dossier is your Equity and Inclusion Statement. The Equity and Inclusion Statement is an opportunity to share with the search committee and with the department your values, 承诺, and abilities to contribute to 皇冠体育’s educational mission. 你应该成为一名教员吗, the statement can also serve as a “first record” of your journey with DEI as an instructor, 研究员, 导师, 社区成员.

The statement should emphasize your knowledge about the sources of inequalities in higher education, especially at historically white institutions such as 皇冠体育大学, and your track record and success in 指导, 教学, and engaging with under-represented/marginalized groups on and beyond campus. 最后, you can use the statement to explain how your experiences and skills with 教学, 指导, 并通过多元化提供建议, 股本, and inclusive framework align with or challenge 皇冠体育’s DEI values and will contribute to growing inclusive excellence across the campus, from curricular to the co-curricular to residential life.

For more information about 皇冠体育大学:

  1. 皇冠体育大学概况一览
  2. 照亮道路:多元化的愿景
  3. 皇冠体育大学 Institute for Inclusive Excellence
  4. 皇冠体育学院的战略愿景
  5. 全球皇冠体育项目

Please feel free to use any of the questions below (or a combination of them) to help focus writing your statement. Your statement may or may not address all of these questions and you are certainly welcome to mention anything you think missing in this invitation to reflect on your 教学, 研究, 和建议.

If you have any additional questions, please contact Associate Dean April Mayes (4月.mayes@bonaprinting.com)以取得进一步协助.

开始

A good place to start thinking about your approach to 股本 and 包容 in the academy may be to reflect on your values, 动机, 和愿望, including the ways in which your journey to this point has been influenced by family, 导师, 教练, 工作人员, 还有其他学者. This first step might help clarify what diversity, 股本, 包容对你来说意味着, given your life history and professional experiences, and the frames of reference you have used to develop strategies in your 教学, 研究, 服务, 并为DEI提供建议.

一些提示

教学

  • Based on 研究 conducted among 皇冠体育 教师, the Institute for Inclusive Excellence (IIE) developed a working (and dynamic) definition of inclusive 教学: “Inclusive 教学 builds community, 教授关键内容, 联系学生的生活和兴趣, 对所有学生开放吗, 关心整个学生.” Provide a reflection about this statement.
  • 描述多样性, 股本, 包容, and access inform how you will craft assignments, 类需求, 教学大纲的结构, the design of your learning management sites (Blackboard, Canvas, 等.), and student participation in your classes. What do you do as an instructor to consider DEI in the development of your courses?
  • How do you consider positionality and power within the classroom and/or within your discipline? Do you include the 研究 not produced within the U.S. academy and/or indigenous methodologies and knowledge systems?

研究

  • Has your 研究 involved collaboration with diverse groups of colleagues and/or interface with community-based partners? What did you gain from that experience and how did it inform your scholarship?
  • Does your 研究 address diversity, 股本, and 包容? 怎么这么? Does your scholarship focus on any marginalized group? 如果是这样的话, describe the interpersonal and professional dynamics you have addressed conducting this kind of 研究. Do you anticipate sharing your insights in the classroom? 与同事?
  • How does your 研究 address the key assumptions of your discipline? Do you include knowledge produced outside the U.S. 或者欧洲的学院?

建议 and Mentoring a Diverse Student Body

  • Have you advised students and/or served as a 导师 for student organizations who are from marginalized groups or who have little representation on their campuses? How did you approach this work and what did you learn from the experience? Do these lessons from advising inform your 教学 or 研究 in any way?
  • What is your plan for helping recruit and retain students in your discipline? How will you encourage first-generation students, 例如, to become involved in your field/discipline, in international study or domestic exchange?
  • Discuss your experience working with international students.