Recruitment Initiatives
- Establish a racially diverse group of faculty and staff who offer insight on recruiting diverse faculty.
- Conduct workshops and climate surveys, obtain training and engage in service initiatives to ensure understanding of Belmont's commitment to diversity
- Work with Alumni Relations to obtain recruitment recommendations and referrals of diverse alumni for available campus job postings
- Ensure diverse membership of the Ambassadors, Bruin Recruiters and other student organizations including a group focused on graduate students and utilize these groups in recruitment
- Support the “Bridges to Belmont” program
- Increase number of diverse student organizations
- Expand involvement of diversity-based student organizations in undergraduate and graduate recruitment
- Implement employment recruitment advertising and marketing diversity initiatives withing brochures, publications, website and news features that reflect a diverse faculty, staff and student population
- Consult with search committees to ensure understanding of appropriate hiring and interview processes including Belmont's diversity initiatives
- Attend the Compact for Diverse Faculty to recruit faculty members from diverse backgrounds
- Acquire new prospective leads of regional diverse high school students from ACT/SAT
- Establish partnerships for ACT prep sessions and college prep and access programs (Belmont Distinguished Scholars/100 Kings) targeted to diverse MNPS students
- Distribute annual survey to new faculty and admitted students for feedback on their recruitment experience
- Identify diverse speakers and invite diverse audience representatives to participate in campus events
- Offer scholarships and provide financial aid support and guidance i.e. Community, Bridges to Belmont, Ingram, Rose Park and Hearst Scholarships