Diversity Statement Instructions
If a diversity statement is listed as one of the required documents to apply for a position, follow these instructions. Your diversity statement is a short essay you submit along with your resume and any other required application documents.
The reason Íæż½ã½ã requests diversity statements is to learn if you have professional skills and career experiences that would enhance campus diversity and equity efforts.
Íæż½ã½ã’s goal is to always hire the most qualified applicant for every job. Your diversity statement will be judged as one piece of your overall qualifications for a particular job.
Your Diversity Statement Should Be:
- Less than one page. Brevity is encouraged. A single paragraph might be adequate if well written.
- A description of your experience developing strategies for the educational or professional advancement of students, faculty, or staff in underrepresented groups.
- A list of your efforts to advance equitable access and diversity in education, employment, or other fields.
- An explanation of your activities such as recruitment, retention, mentoring, or advising of underrepresented students, faculty, or staff.
- If you don’t have any such experiences, discuss your ideas about the ways you might contribute to diversity if employed at Íæż½ã½ã.
Underrepresented individuals may include women, racial or ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, military veterans, people from a deprived socioeconomic class, people of nontraditional sexual orientation, or others who sometimes face challenges obtaining an education or employment.
Your Diversity Statement Should NOT Be:
- Merely your personal feelings about diversity. Focus instead on your actual educational, employment, or volunteer activities related to improving diversity. Think of the diversity statement as a list your accomplishments toward improving diversity.