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UC Berkeley Documents:

UC Berkeley website with instructions implementing the hiring part of the March OP directive- see in particular “selection criteria and planned evaluation process". They include: "Consider creating a cut-off score for advancing equity and inclusion, below which a candidate would not move forward in the search process (would be considered “below the bar”), regardless of their scores in other areas, similar to what would be done for research quality or plans. For example, if 5 points are given for various components of advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (e.g., understanding 5 points, track record 5 points, and plans 5 points), assign a value below which a candidate would not be considered competitive and would not move forward regardless of their scores in other areas (e.g., any single 0 or 1 out of 5 would disqualify a candidate from further consideration)."

Note table A, which shows that in the Life Sciences Cluster hire, the applicant pool was cut from 894 to 214 based solely on a DEI score.  Table B gives the data on a similar search in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.  

Contributions to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are scored alongside research, teaching and service, with a score of 1 in any category being disqualifying. Traditionally the three areas that are evaluated in faculty appointments are Research, Teaching and Public Service, with research emphasized at a research university.

In this document, DEI is being used as fourth criterion.

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