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From: African-Americans in Higher Education [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr. dt ogilvie
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:32 PM
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Subject: [AFAMHED] Fw: President's Faculty Diversity Cluster Hiring Initiative

Sisters and Brothers, I know you'll find this interesting and provocative.
Maybe you can put a group together as a cluster! dt
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From: "Richard L. McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:42 PM
Subject: President's Faculty Diversity Cluster Hiring Initiative


> Members of the Rutgers Community:
>
> Diversity is one of our core values at Rutgers. While our student body is
> wonderfully diverse, our faculty is less so. In order to be as great a
> university as we can be, we must work to further diversify our faculty so
> that we can achieve the excellence and intellectual depth and richness
> that such diversification brings.
>
> Therefore, I am pleased to announce the President's Faculty Diversity
> Cluster Hiring Initiative. Each academic year, for at least the next five
> years, I will invite proposals from deans and provosts for Faculty
> Diversity Cluster Hires-groups of three, four, or even five faculty of the
> highest quality who would come to Rutgers as a group or "cluster," and
> whose addition to our faculty ranks would strategically and significantly
> increase the diversification of our scholarship and pedagogy. Such hires
> might be all in one department or, more likely, would cross departmental
> or even school or campus lines. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
> proposals would receive particular consideration. The Office of the
> President will provide half the salary of each faculty member in the
> cluster for their first three years at Rutgers.
>
> This new President's Faculty Diversity Cluster Hiring Initiative is an
> additional program which supplements the gains in this area we have
> already achieved through individual faculty and postdoctoral hires
> supported by the Office of Faculty Diversity Initiatives. The Office of
> Faculty Diversity Initiatives will continue to entertain requests from
> deans and provosts for partial salary support for tenured and tenure-track
> faculty hires, as well as for one to two-year postdoctoral appointments,
> for scholars of excellence whose presence at Rutgers will increase the
> diversity of the department, unit, campus, or curriculum.
>
> Further information regarding program criteria and application guidelines
> will be sent to deans and provosts shortly. Should you have any questions
> regarding this exciting new program in the meantime, please feel free to
> contact Dr. Karen Stubaus at [log in to unmask] or
> 732-932-4889.
>
> Richard L. McCormick
> President
> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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