Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost

Resource Guide for Recruiting Excellent and Diverse Faculty

VI. DIVERSITY RESOURCES

Iowa State University

General Resources (Directories, websites, publications)

Video Library

"To Celebrate Diversity is to Appreciate and Value Individual Differences"

(Society for Human Resource Management)

Iowa State University

The following major resources are available at Iowa State University:

Diversity Outreach Resources for Faculty Vacancies
http://www.hrs.iastate.edu/AAO/Outreach/Outreach.shtml

Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity - Diversity
http://www.hrs.iastate.edu/diversity/

Diversity Resources - Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
http://www.provost.iastate.edu/fad/diversity.html

Office of Training & Development
http://www.hrs.iastate.edu/training/homepage.shtml

Resources listed in VI. Bibliography used for this handbook
http://www.provost.iastate.edu/office/resource/bibliography.html

General Resources

Professional organizations, newspapers, publications, and higher education websites

African-American

Asian-American

Latino/Hispanic

American Indian

Women

Higher Education Associations and Publications

Newspapers

Higher Education Job websites

Directories for Women and Under-represented Groups

Minority and Women Doctoral Directory

This registry maintains up-to-date information on employment candidates who have recently received, or are soon to receive, a Doctoral or Master's degree in their respective fields from one of approximately two hundred major research universities in the United States. The current edition of the directory lists approximately 4,500 Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Asian American, and women students in nearly 80 fields in the sciences, engineering, the social sciences and the humanities.
www.mwdd.com

The WISE Directories

First published in 1994, the WISE Directory was initiated to increase the professional opportunities of women graduates and postdoctoral students at CIC universities.
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/DirectoryOfWomenInScienceAndEngineering/

Ford Foundation Fellows

This directory contains information on Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship recipients awarded since 1980 and Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation fellowship recipients awarded since 1986. The directory was created to serve as a resource for university officials seeking to diversify their faculty, minority students looking for mentors and role models, and scholars interested in establishing collaborative projects.

Directory of Minority PhD, MFA and MLS Candidates and Recipients

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Directory of Minority, Ph.D, M.F.A., and M.L.S Candidates and Recipients is published online in an effort to increase the professional opportunities of minority graduate students and to aid colleges, universities, and other institutions.
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/DirectoryOfMinorityCandidates/

The Faculty Project

The only website dedicated to linking a diverse pool of women and underrepresented minority candidates from engineering, science and business with faculty and research positions at universities across the country.
http://www.engr.psu.edu/fff/

Video Library at Iowa State University

The following videos are available for your use. You may want to rent one to view on your own and use the self-guided discussion that accompanies it, or to use it for your own department or group with the discussion guide for groups. A training specialist will also assist in leading your group in a discussion and awareness experience with these videos. For more information please call the Office of Training & Development at 294-1070.
http://www.hrs.iastate.edu/training/diversity.shtml

Blue Eyed

Jane Elliott's widely-known "blue eyed/brown eyed" exercise; a most celebrated anti-racism awareness program.

Encouraging the Heart

Video has practical ideas for helping others believe in themselves, celebrate their uniqueness, and discover their own value. It's a training program both inspirational and instructional that shows how to master one of the most difficult and valuable leadership skills of all.

The Fairer Sex

Watch how ABC News Prime Time Live set out to discover whether there are daily differences in being a male versus a female in today's American society, particularly in the workplace.

Land of Os

A video linking diversity with productivity, competitiveness and bottom line results. It is about how a few Xs deal with a lot of Os in a work environment.

A Peacock in the Land of Penguins

This video echoes how to manage the increasing diversity of the workforce and capture the talent, energy and commitment of all.

The Ramp of Hope

A social statement against stereotypical discrimination of people with disabilities.

Seniors

Follow-up to the Frosh video. Shows the same group of freshmen and how they are living and working together when they are seniors.

Shattering the Silences

This offers everyone in higher education an unprecedented opportunity to see American campuses through the eyes of minority faculty themselves.

True Colors

Prime Time Live enlisted the services of two trained professional discrimination testers to investigate situations in which blacks and whites continue to be treated differently.

Leading Academic Excellence