This Office of the Provost program is designed to support the University’s goals with respect to diversity and our climate of inclusion, by advancing the recruitment of outstanding tenured/tenure-track faculty members engaged in race and racism scholarship.

More details may be found here.

Primary Academic Unit

Secondary Academic Unit

Please upload a proposal, from the Dean (and Department Chair, if applicable) that includes the following (each section denoted with a separate header):

• Target area of race and racism scholarship, including how the proposed work will complement and enhance existing work at the university
• Potential of the proposed work to contribute to the diversity goals of the Department/School
• Process by which the candidate will be selected, including the anticipated qualifications of your ideal faculty candidate, particularly in the target area of race and racism scholarship. Please specify whether you will be seeking a faculty member at the tenured or tenure-track level.
• Mentoring and support efforts the hiring unit will undertake to support the professional career development of the faculty member hired via this initiative. If you are proposing to recruit a senior candidate, provide a statement of the steps that will be taken to facilitate a successful transition into the hiring unit.

Please upload a statement of School’s progress in achieving its three-year diversity goals and how this application will advance the School’s diversity plans:

Proposed Budget

Please use the template below to upload a budget narrative and table that details a three-year estimate of the projected budget needed to successfully recruit the candidates. Please create separate lines for each budget item (e.g. salary, fringe, start-up funds, etc.), and provide a yearly estimate of amounts of funds that will be requested from the Office of the Provost and provided by the School. 

CLICK HERE to download the budget narrative and table template.

Please Note:

• We recognize that the proposed budget is based on your estimate of what it will cost to recruit the candidate. The actual budget, and Office of the Provost award, will be based on the accepted offer letter.