What if two departments agree to work together, but the FTE will go to one department—would the search committee still have to be multidisciplinary?
Yes. Q: What provisions can be made to deal with the real probability that these diversity faculty members will come up for review, but their work will not be highly valued by most of the colleagues in their department? A: It’s possible to make allowances in the review process, and to intervene in the review process to make it more balanced. The campus has developed a number of good models here that have worked in the past, including having both departments agree on accomplishments needed for tenure during the hiring process. Q: In the sciences and engineering, faculty will be judged by their colleagues strictly, on their science, not necessarily their diversity work. A: Departments need to be open-minded as to what constitutes scholarly research in their field. APM 210 clearly states that the campus will value top quality diversity research regardless of the department. Or we need to give the diversity faculty 0% appointments in their department and 100% appointments in Education, for