After your academic unit conducts a climate survey, the Office of the Provost will create an executive summary of the data results for your department's leadership team.  Consultations on how to best interpret the results is also available.  Questions can be tailored for your department and data can be illustrated for communication purposes.   

Academic demographic diversity dashboards are available to academic department Chairs, Directors and Managers and provide confidential departmental level data on student, faculty, postdoc and staff demographics. The Office of the Provost can assist you with department-level demographic needs.

Accessing the system:  In order to access the department tableau reports, you must be connected to the University network.  When prompted, enter your Princeton NetID and password and follow the prompts for DUO (dual factor authentication).  Once complete, your initial dashboard reports will display.  If you are attempting to access your department reports outside the Princeton network, you must to connect to the University network through VPN before proceeding with the directions above. 

Please contact Shawn Maxam, Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion for more information.

Princeton University’s academic departments, centers, institutes, and programs are committing to advancing racial equity, access, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within their communities and disciplines.  The Office of the Provost created a resource tailored for Princeton academic departments titled “Addressing Systemic Racism in Academia” (link in subtitle above) which is a brief guide to best practices in defining, recognizing, and combating racism in academic environments.

The following resources are tailored for the needs of academic departments conducting searches for faculty, graduate students and other academic roles:

• Faculty Search Officers and Search Committees: Best Practices Guide -- Princeton University is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty. Each faculty search affects the quality of the department as well as its diversity. The purpose of this search guide is to outline the expected protocols in faculty searches. These processes constitute a collection of best practices and are intended to integrate searches more closely with the Office of the Dean of the Faculty. 
• Interrupting Bias in the Academic Search Process: Best Practices Guide -- The Office of the Provost created this brief at-a-glance resource, complete with rubrics and checklists, which offers advice for best practices before, during and after academic search processes.
• Interrupting Bias in the Graduate Admissions Process: Best Practices Guide -- The Office of the Provost created this guide as a resource for academic units as they agree and implement recruitment processes for graduate students.
• Implicit Associations Test -- This brief online test was created by Dr. Tony Greenwald (University of Washington), Dr. Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Dr. Brian Nosek (University of Virginia) and serves as a useful tool for members of academic search committees.
• Gendered Language in Job Postings--Two online screening tools can assist search committees avoid gendered language as they draft job postings, interview questions and performance measurements: 
  • Gender Decoder
  • Totaljobs The Gender Bias Decoder

A bullet point list of tips for leaders of academic departments to foster inclusive academic cultures where all can thrive.

This resource contains key tips for developing more inclusive mentoring within academic departments.  

• "Antiracist Pedagogy: Definition, Theory, and Professional Development" by Alda Blakeney (2011) 
• “Anti-racist pedagogy: from faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom” by Kyoko Kishimoto (2016)
• “Getting Out of the Left Lane: The Possibility of White Antiracist Pedagogy” by Karen Teel (2014)

• "Disability, Diversity and Inclusivity: Pedagogy in Higher Education" by Valerie Schoolcraft et al. Washington & Lee University (2018)
• "Disability Studies" Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programs in the Humanities; Princeton University (2015)
• "Technology and Accessibility" McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning; Princeton University

• "Moving Up Without Losing Your Way" by Jennifer M. Morton '02; CUNY (2020)
• "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students" by Tony Jack; Harvard University (2019)
• "Teaching First-Generation College Students" by B. Galina; Vanderbilt University