Presidential Faculty Diversity Initiative

In 2021, Rutgers launched a Presidential Faculty Diversity Initiative to advance our institutional goals toward diversity, equity, and inclusion universitywide. A program for Accelerated Recruitment of Individual Faculty allows departments and programs to bring exceptional new faculty to Rutgers, in all fields. A Faculty Cluster Hiring program promotes the hiring of multiple faculty in four key priority areas of strength at Rutgers: Race, Racism, and Inequality, Health Equity, Advancing STEM Diversity, and Engaged Climate Action. And a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows program gives promising scholars two years of mentored research and teaching and creates a pathway to a possible tenure-track appointment on a Rutgers campus.

A diverse faculty is a cornerstone of academic excellence. By reaching out far and wide to recruit and hire the most talented new faculty members and providing structures for support, mentoring, and professional advancement, our programs set in motion a self-reinforcing academic community that is committed to reducing isolation, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and advancing our mission of inclusive academic excellence.

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