Each person is to be evaluated as an individual on her or his merits and not on stereotypic conceptions of their gender, racial or ethnic characteristics. Affirmative Action is a more proactive concept than Equal Employment Opportunity. It means affirming that employers will actively and aggressively seek to overcome the effects of past discriminatio n against groups such as women and minorities by making a positive and continuous effort in recruitment, employment, retention, and promotion practices. The concept also means that a university must actively remove any barriers that artificially limit th e professional and personal development of women and minorities. This document has been prepared within the context of the campus standing commitment to diversifying its faculty and staff.
Emphasis is placed on strategies designed to attract women and minorities for campus position.
This brochure offers strategies which circumvent those barriers. The order of change sought via our commitment will not develop of its own accord and will not happen overnight. Rather, it requires diligence on the part of all of those who are involved i n decisions affecting the composition of our campus community. It requires more than opening doors a little wider. Sensitivity and consistency in identifying and overcoming intentional and unintentional bias in the ways in which we select new faculty an d staff is necessary.