Equity and Diversity Services

Recruitment

Why Recruit, Hire and Retain Diverse Faculty and Staff?

1. Understanding and embracing the rationale for a diverse faculty and staff is crucial. Key rationales are:
   
   
   • Positive influence on all students, especially historically underrepresented students
   • Reduction of tensions associated with volatile and controversial issues
   • Reinforces educational excellence
   • Students report that diversity is central to their educational process
   • Enhances student, faculty and staff learning across social and cultural lines
   • Promotes education of students who are critical and complex thinkers:
     
     
     • More open-minded students
     • Truth seekers about social, political and moralissues
     • Analytical thinkers
     • Systematic thinkers
     • Preparation of students for a diverse and pluralistic society
     • Student satisfaction at Mason is improved
2. Diversity and Inclusion equal educational excellence
   
   
3. Improvement in the cultural competency of thecampus community if institutional leadership demonstrates a sincere level of engagement with students, faculty and staff
   
   
4. Diverse faculty assists students to see historically under represented faculty and staff in roles of authority, as well as role models and mentors