This document outlines updated criteria to assess staff contributions in the area of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and open access, introduced to better reward these efforts in promotion, tenure-track and merit assessments at Indiana University. It also mentions such qualities like interrelated activities and accomplishments; independence, innovation, and initiative; teamwork, as areas to be considered in these evaluations.
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TU Delft Recognition & Rewards Perspective 2021-2024
Dutch University TU Delft has taken on initiatives to better recognise and reward academics instituting programs such as the ” Recognition & Rewards programme,” and “Open Science Programme.”
UCalgary signing the Scarborough Charter to address anti-Black racism and foster Black inclusion
In November 2021, University of Calgary signed the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion. This resource describes UCalgary’s committment to combatting racial biases and systemic racism by recognizing the research excellence of Black faculty and students, and instituting an Equitable and Inclusive Hiring Guide, among a number of other goals and initiatives.
GFC Academic Staff Criteria & Processes Handbook
In 2021, University of Calgary created the Academic Staff Criteria and Processes Handbook to inform promotion and tenure of faculty and research staff included a line committing to DORA. The handbook also includes criteria regarding knowledge engagement and knowledge transfer, being rewarded in assessments, among other criteria.
Rewarding robust and reproducible research
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin introduced five new application criteria for professorships in 2017 to promote robust and reproducible research. This post highlights the goals in which these criteria are to help achieve regarding recruiting, hiring and evaluation processes.
Academic Promotion Criteria for 2019-2020
This document outlines the changes in the professorial promotion criteria introduced at the University of Glasgow in 2019 to put more attention on evidence of collegiality and commitments to societal impact and open research.
Recruiting for Excellence
This packet from University of Zurich provides information on fair assessment of job candidates and how to recognize and avoid biases, specifically gender bias, during the hiring process.
Searching for Excellence & Diversity: A guide for search committees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2nd edition
This hiring guide from University of Wisconsin-Madison describes how to conduct hiring searches with diversity and equity.
Searching for Excellence & Diversity: Increasing the Hiring of Women Faculty at One Academic Medical Center
This paper from University of Wisconsin-Maddison discusses an experiment conducted about unconscious gender bias training among faculty, highlighting the impact of unconscious bias training and subsequent faculty hiring outcomes.
Office of the Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor: OER Announcement
The Provost at University of Pittsburgh announces in this letter the progress of a working group aimed at researching open educational resources and how to reduce cost of course materials for students.