Date Effective: October 21, 1985
Date Revised: July 20, 1993
Date Revised: December 19, 2000

POLICY AND PROCEDURE MEMORANDUM ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE - 9

SUBJECT:     Procedures for Affirmative Action Report Form

POLICY

It is the policy of the Bloomberg School of Public Health to openly advertise the credentials for available full-time professorial faculty appointments in a special effort to attract, among other qualified candidates, qualified candidates who are members of minority groups and women.

To implement this policy, the Dean will submit for the approval of the Advisory Board only those new full-time professorial faculty appointments for which an Affirmative Action Report Form has been completed by a department head or a head of a search committee.

PROCEDURE

The Affirmative Action Report is to be completed by department heads and search committees.  The Dean is responsible for ensuring that no professorial faculty appointments are approved by the Advisory Board without an appropriately completed Affirmative Action Report Form.

The principle of open recruitment requires that efforts be made to make the availability of the position and required credentials widely known to prospective candidates, especially those who are members of minority groups and women.  Advertisement is one means of open recruiting and such advertisements should at a minimum indicate that the University is "An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer."  A description of the position should be available to all candidates.  All reports are subject to review by the Dean and the Affirmative Action Committee.

Each section of the Affirmative Action Report must be completed for all full-time professorial faculty appointments including professors, research professors, public health professors, associate professors, associate research professors, associate public health professors, assistant professors, assistant research professors, and assistant public health professors.  This form must be completed for instructors who are recruited with the intention of filling a tenure-track position.

Any additional information which pertains to the candidate selected should be submitted in Section 9 on "Comments or Special Justification."

A description of the position should be made equally available to all candidates.

All completed reports are subject to review by the Dean, appropriate staff, and the Committee on Affirmative Action.  Completed reports are maintained in the Dean's Office.

A copy of the current Affirmative Action Report form dated December 2000, is attached.