Climate & Demographics
- Climate
- Demographics
- HS Faculty Equity Advisor
- Faculty Search Committee Best Practices
To reduce the effects of unconscious bias hiring in faculty recruitment by search committees, UC San Diego Health Sciences has implemented the following changes to the faculty recruitment process:
Candidate Evaluation forms adapted from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and WISELI are used to help search committees clearly articulate the reasons that they select candidates. They have been shown to markedly decrease unconscious bias in the faculty recruitment and hiring process.
Below are articles and resources.
Review the Research on Bias and Assumptions developed by WISELI at the University of Wisconsin Madison for best practices to reduce bias.
Think your letters are not biased? Think again.