Design Faculty of Color Affinity Spaces to Improve Retention

Last updated September 18, 2020
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Design Faculty of Color Affinity Spaces to Improve Retention

Last updated September 18, 2020

Table of Contents

Introduction
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Step 1: Identifying Informal/Formal Groups
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Step 2: Using Data to Identify the Needs for an Employee Resource Group
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Step 3: Creating Institutional Policies & Procedures
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Step 4: Creating a Funding Structure
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Step 5: Creating an Application Process
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Step 6: Identifying Meeting Structures
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Step 7: Conducting Assessments
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Step 8: Coordinating Programmatic Initiatives & Campus Outreach
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Create affinity spaces that validate and empower your faculty of color.

Overview

Building affinity spaces for your faculty of color is one way you can improve retention efforts. These spaces not only connect underrepresented faculty to each other, they increase faculty productivity and institutional loyalty. However, it’s not enough to simply offer these affinity spaces – you must also organize them with clear structure and intention, so that faculty of color know their voices and concerns will be heard and responded to by upper administration.

Join us online and learn how to create a structure for your affinity spaces that engages both faculty of color and administration. Our expert instructor will guide you through an 8-step process for formalizing the design, budgeting, policies, and procedures of your affinity spaces so that collaboration between faculty of color and upper administration is made easy and your faculty of color feel supported.

Who should attend?

Faculty, academic leaders, and representatives from Human Resources who oversee recruitment or retention efforts for faculty of color will benefit most from this webcast. This training is designed for campuses who are looking to develop new affinity spaces or refine existing ones for their faculty of color and other minoritized faculty members.

Agenda

After reviewing the benefits of establishing faculty of color affinity spaces, our speaker will walk you through the eight steps required to formalize your campus affinity groups, including:

  1. Identifying informal and formal groups – both new and existing
  2. Using data to identify the needs for an affinity group
  3. Creating institutional policies and procedures
  4. Developing a funding structure
  5. Creating an application process
  6. Identifying meeting structures
  7. Conducting assessments
  8. Coordinating programmatic initiatives and campus outreach

 

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Jeanine Bias-Nelson

Jeanine Bias

Chief Experience Officer, Office of the Provost, Sam Houston State University

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