The following list spotlights examples of recruitment and retention programs and initiatives that political scientists and departments are engaged in to increase and advance diversity and inclusion throughout the profession. Tell APSA about your department’s program! 

Duke University-Department of Political Science *

• APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

Florida International University

• FIU 2017 “Sounds of Diversity” Diversity Week program

University of Central Florida *

• McNair Scholars Program List

Princeton University-Department of Politics

• Emerging Scholars Program

Purdue University*

• Summer START Program

The Ohio State University

• Understanding Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sex and Disparities in Modern Society Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiative

University of California, Santa Barbara*

• Pre-College Program –– Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP)
• Diversity, Equity & Academic Policy Resources
• Educational Opportunity Program

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Emerging Scholar Program
• Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity
• STRIDE

University of Minnesota, Department of Political Science *

• Diversity Outreach Program

University of Virginia, Department of Politics

• UVA Visit Day

University of Washington *

• WIRED Research Cluster

* APSA MSRP Recruiting Departments. See here for more information about how to join. 

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Tell APSA about a diversity recruitment or retention program that you or your department is engaged. Submit a spotlight program today! Or Email us at diversityprograms@apsanet.org.

Read the Task Force Recommendations

Pictured: Former APSA President Dianne Pinderhughes, task force president, and Luis Fraga, task force co-chair, present The Task Force on Political Science in the 21st Century Report findings at the National Press Club, in Washington DC on October 21, 2011.

APSA Programs

• eJobs
• APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI)
• Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP)
• Diversity Student Recruitment Program (DSRP)
• Mentor Program

 

APSA Resources

• APSA Resource List for Diversity Recruitment of Faculty and Graduate Students
• Resources for Indigenous Scholars and Indigenous Politics
• Building a More Inclusive Political Science for the 21st Century — Task Force recommendations (view full report and faculty demographic data)
• Data on the Profession (departmental and placement reports)
• APSA Membership Dashboard Data
• APSA Organized Section Dashboard Data

 

External Recruitment Resources  

 

AGEP – Professorial Advancement Initiative, Big Ten Alliance Big Ten Alliance 

For over 30 years, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Graduate Deans have fostered pipeline programs designed to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) graduate student enrollments and faculty candidates. 

Holistic Admissions Strategies – ETS and GRE

Increasingly, admissions discussions are focusing on a holistic approach to reviewing applicants. This method looks at multiple sources of information to ensure consideration of the full picture of each applicant’s potential.

Reducing the Impact of Implicit Bias

• AAUW: How to Fight Your Own Implicit Biases
• Project Implicit (Harvard University)
  • Can You Change Implicit Bias?  (see video)
• Psychology Today: Overcoming Implicit Bias and Racial Anxiety
• Reducing the Impact of Bias in the STEM Workforce –OSTP/OPM Report (New) Read the 2016 report by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of Personnel Management’s  (OPM) Interagency Policy Group on research on interventions aimed at overcoming the challenges presented by, and reducing the impact of, implicit bias. 

StratEGIC Toolkit – NSF ADVANCE Best Practices  

A collection of evidence-based best practices, tools, and briefings for departments and institutions seeking strategies for on diverse and inclusive recruitment and hiring (See: Lauren, S.L. & Austin, A.E. (2014). Strategic Intervention Brief #5: Inclusive Recruitment and Hiring. In Laursen, S. L., & Austin, A. E., StratEGIC Toolkit: Strategies for Effecting Gender Equity and Institutional Change. Boulder, CO, and East Lansing, MI. www.strategictoolkit.org)

 APSA Status Committee Reports

•  A Forgotten Minority? A Content Analysis of Asian Pacific Americans in Introductory American Government Textbooks — Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans in the Profession
•  Survey of African American Portrayal in Introductory Textbooks in American Government/Politics — Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession
•  Survey of Textbooks for Teaching Introduction to US Politics: (How) do They See Us? — Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Individuals in the Profession.
•  Pipeline Practices Report — Committee on the Status of Women in Profession