- VC EDI search announced
- VC EDI Search Committee named and charged
- Greenwood/Asher & Associates, Inc. selected to support the Search Committee
UC San Diego is one of the nation’s most accomplished research universities, widely acknowledged for its local, national, and global influence. With a majestic view of the Pacific Ocean, this distinctive campus is a magnet for award winning faculty and a powerful catalyst for the advancement of knowledge.
Diversity is a defining feature of the State of California, and is a source of innovative ideas, creative accomplishments, and a variety of values and worldviews that arise from differences of culture and life experiences including race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, language, abilities/disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geographic region and more. UC San Diego strives to reflect this diversity in its students, faculty and staff. Achieving such diversity is a high institutional priority, and is integral to our achievement of academic excellence.
The campus embraces diversity as providing educational, social, economic, political and ethical value for our university. It enriches the educational experience through interactions of students and faculty from multiple backgrounds and perspectives. It offers social participation and mutual understanding to campus constituents from all heritages, orientations, religious backgrounds, or other life circumstances. It provides equality of access and opportunity so that every segment of society can contribute to the campus climate and culture while benefiting from our economic future. Embracing faculty, students, and staff from all social sectors constitutes a moral obligation in a nation with a long history of unequal treatment of disadvantaged or neglected groups. For these reasons and more, UC San Diego must continue to strengthen its commitment to diversity.
Through the campus Principles of Community, we strive to create a climate of respect, fairness, cooperation and professionalism and to promote innovation and leadership by utilizing the talents and abilities of all. In so doing, a particular effort is made to identify and seek to overcome any barriers that hinder equal opportunity in employment and career advancement, particularly for those groups who historically have experienced discrimination in the area of employment.
The campus values diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential ingredients of academic excellence. We seek an individual to join our leadership team who can help lead us effectively in productive collaborative partnerships with the community within and outside UC San Diego to catalyze change in this area.
The University of California, San Diego, is seeking nominations and applications for the position of Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (VC-EDI.) Please direct nominations, inquiries and applications (with a current resume) by December 8, 2011 to:
| Dr. Jan Greenwood, Partner jangreenwood@greenwoodsearch.com |
Dr. Betty Turner Asher, Partner, Vice President & COO bettyasher@greenwoodsearch.com |
| Greenwood/Asher & Associates, Inc. 42 Business Center Drive, Suite 206 Miramar Beach, FL 32550 |
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The campus community may communicate directly with the search committee about any aspect of this important recruitment by sending email to vcedisearch@ucsd.edu
The Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (VC-EDI) reports to the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs with a dotted line reporting relationship to the Chancellor, is a member of the Chancellor's Cabinet, and serves as the leading senior executive responsible for providing a holistic and integrated vision on all major equity, diversity and inclusion efforts at UC San Diego. The desired outcome of these efforts is to achieve a UC San Diego environment that it is welcoming and supportive for students, faculty, and staff, regardless of personal experiences, values, and worldviews that arise from differences of culture and circumstance including race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, language, abilities/disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geographic region and more.
UC San Diego currently has many active diversity programs and initiatives which the VC-EDI will be charged to support, infuse, help shape, and transform. Additionally, the VC-EDI will have the opportunity to develop and implement new initiatives and programs to provide focus and accountability for diversity and outreach across all parts of UC San Diego.
The VC-EDI is a newly created position at UC San Diego which will require creativity and innovation to establish the role and organizational structure to enable achievement of the campus' strategic diversity goals. The VC-EDI will be charged with assessing the effectiveness of all diversity and outreach programs and services on campus, and will be expected to lead UC San Diego – within legally acceptable constraints – to measurable improvements in organizational climate and recruitment/retention in a diverse community of approximately 23,700 undergraduate students, 5,500 graduate and professional students, 1,200 Senate faculty, and 18,500 staff and non-Senate academics. The Vice Chancellor must develop broad-based partnerships throughout the campus and with external constituents such as the community, donors, and the UC system.
The VC-EDI will establish a campus-wide diversity office responsible for addressing diversity in all aspects of the UC San Diego mission including outreach, recruitment, retention, and climate. The VC-EDI office will have operational responsibility for a portfolio of current programs (either directly or via a dotted line), new programs, initiatives, and services. Upon assuming the position, the VC-EDI will engage in an initial period of evaluation and study and will ultimately recommend to the Executive Vice Chancellor a strategic plan for strengthening existing programs, developing new programs, and outlining an institutional research framework for assessing program effectiveness over time. In collaboration with University Development, the VC EDI will lead fundraising activities to support and enhance these important initiatives.
The Search Committee is charged with conducting a national search, identifying suitable candidates for interview, and developing a short list of candidates for the Chancellor’s and Executive Vice Chancellor’s consideration. Search consultant Greenwood/Asher & Associates, Inc. has been retained to provide support for the search.
The Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion is a newly created position at UC San Diego and will require creativity and innovation to establish the role and organizational structure that enable achievement of the campus’ strategic goals in this area. Given the complexity of this new role and the broad number of constituents that will be touched by it the Search Committee, working with Greenwood/Asher, will undertake a number of listening sessions prior to launching the search. The Committee will elicit input from campus and community members on the common interests and ideals that will be critical to the Search Committee as they establish interview questions and evaluate the candidate responses to those questions. We plan to begin this work in mid-July and launch the search officially in August.
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