Priority: Diversify Faculty & Staff

A more diverse faculty and staff, and a deeper, more widespread understanding of diversity issues will enable us to provide a balanced educational experience both inside and outside the classroom. It will also better prepare Lehigh students to be successful global citizens and leaders in a complex and changing world.

In adopting The Principles of Our Equitable Community, Lehigh University affirmed its unwavering commitment to foster a diverse, inclusive and equitable community, as well as an environment that supports and encourages diverse viewpoints. We continue to work toward this goal through non-discriminatory and permissible methodology by increasing our efforts to attract and retain talented and experienced faculty and staff from diverse and underrepresented groups across the university.

Goals

  • Attract, recruit and hire excellent and diverse faculty and staff dedicated to student development, professional excellence, continuing growth and inclusion and belonging
  • Retain diverse faculty and staff dedicated to supporting an inclusive and equitable campus environment, encouraging freedom to express all perspectives
  • Enhance the multicultural competencies and capabilities — the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in a diverse world — of faculty and staff

Select Progress

  • Joined the National Science Foundation’s IChange/Aspire network. The Aspire Alliance is a national project aimed at developing more inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring and retention in STEM disciplines at universities throughout the U.S.
  • Developed and implemented practices to improve faculty diversity, such as the Faculty Diversity Search in Engineering
  • Added to the university’s professional development offerings for faculty and staff to encourage diversity, inclusion and equity learning, such as through the Cornerstones of Community series, a career enrichment curriculum offered through Human Resources for staff — 1,803 participants, 5,142 modules complete

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