Our Work

To ensure a diverse pool of talented candidates, search committees must proactively recruit the best candidates to apply for the position.

The Strategic Priorities Faculty Initiative (SPFI) provides temporary University financial support to academic departments enabling them to hire additional full-time, tenure- track faculty or continuing-eligible academic professionals who will enhance UA’s distinctive strengths in advancing Inclusive Excellence via equal opportunity, diversity, and inclusion. 

We have particular interest in hires that can help address the current issues in teaching, research and service that have been raised by the Black Lives Matter movement. Additionally, given the University of Arizona’s Hispanic Serving Institution Designation, there is a need for more faculty whose work can increase capacity of the institution to serve Latinx students. In addition, although Arizona has the highest percentage of Native Americans among all the U.S. states, students and faculty have been significantly underrepresented on campus.

Each year improvements are made to promotion procedures and documentation in collaboration with the University committees that are charged with providing shared-governance leadership on promotion reviews. 

  • Training for Promotion and Review
    • Promotion Workshops for Candidates
      • This workshop will include a discussion of how to document your programs of work, administrative leadership and service initiatives to demonstrate impact.
    • Training on Promotion Process of Department Heads, Directors and Committee Members
      • If you are veteran or new serving at the department or college level, this workshop will specifically addresses the role of the committee member in the promotion review process.

The University of Arizona is deeply committed to paying comparable salaries for comparable work for all of its employees, regardless of gender, race and ethnicity. Accordingly, we have recently completed a comprehensive review of base salary among tenured and tenure-eligible (T/TE) faculty.

Read the Report on 2020 Salary Equity Review Tenure/Tenure Eligible Faculty here.

Faculty Affairs offers the Faculty Development Communities for Promotion (FDCP) Mentoring Program. The objective of this program is to prioritize guiding values of excellence, honesty, trustworthiness, and compassion to help groups of small faculty discuss and navigate their professional development while on the pathway to promotion/tenure with the guidance of a faculty mentor who has participated on promotion review committees.

If you have questions on the application procedures, please email Dr. Adrián Arroyo, Associate Director Faculty Programs at arroyopa@arizona.edu.

  • Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives
    • The University of Arizona is the first four-year public university in the state of Arizona to be federally recognized as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). A Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) is a federal designation by the U.S. Department of Education that acknowledges colleges and universities with 25% or more total undergraduate Hispanic full-time equivalent student enrollment.
      • HSI Fellows Program
        • Supported by a strategic investment from the Office of the Provost and partnering departments across campus, the HSI Fellows Program serves to strategically further the scope and depth of work around our HSI designation and provide a venue for community-building and career development for a cohort of 10 faculty and staff each year through a project-based leadership experience, mentoring and coaching, and a series of targeted workshops.   
      • STEM in HSIs Working Group
        • The STEM in HSI Working Group (HSI-WG) at the University of Arizona (UA), formed in 2017 as a result of NSF HSI Conference Award #1748526, The Southwest Conference on Transforming STEM Education in HSIs.
  • Inclusive Leadership Program
    • Centered on the University’s core values of diversity and inclusion, excellence, innovation and entrepreneurial action, integrity, and partnerships, the Inclusive Leadership Program will build a pipeline that will not only further diversify our leadership but will also advance innovative collaborations aimed at creating inclusive workplaces, student learning, curricula, and partnerships.
  • Office of Instruction and Assessment 
    • Inclusive Excellence in Teaching Professional Learning Community 
      • A PLC convenes around a shared topic of interest, in this case, inclusive excellence in teaching.  Participants typically meet a few times per semester to discuss shared resources and/or talk with expert guests. This may also include workshops and/or classroom observations, depending on the community’s goals.
  • National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)
    • NCFDD is a nationally recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. Because the University of Arizona is an Institutional Member, all of our faculty, postdocs, and graduate students are granted free membership using their UArizona e-mail address. 
    • Faculty Affairs organizes 

 

Below is a list of Faculty Affinity Groups on campus and leader(s). Leaders meet monthly with the Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs.