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CREATING AN ETHNICALLY AND
Current Efforts and Data Future Faculty Career Fair
NWTC is committed to promoting a learning
environment where employees and students of
differing perspectives and cultural backgrounds
pursue career and academic goals embraced in
an environment of respect and shared inquiry. Future Faculty Career Fair, a program targeted
for diverse professionals and NWTC graduates,
was first held on April 8, 2015. This program
highlighted credentials required to be qualified
to become a faculty member, the Instructional
Preparation Academy, and mentoring opportunities
with current NWTC faculty. The program
was also used to attract a diverse faculty
candidate pool for the fall 2015 semester.
The College seeks to attract ethnically diverse
instructors and staff who can inspire our
increasingly diverse student population.
Strategic Hiring
In order for the College to maintain the status of
“destination employer” in today’s market, NWTC
must be strategic and pro-active to broaden
the candidate pool, increasing both the quality
and diversity of prospective candidates.
Inclusive Hiring Training
Inclusive Hiring Training walks participants
through a process of creating awareness,
understanding, and application to interview
individuals with an understanding and value for
their different backgrounds and opinions. This
training highlights the intersections of legal
and illegal questions, bias, and our impressions
of how a hiring process should work.
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Over 2,500 diverse alumni, 32 benefit eligible non-
faculty employees, and 95 part-time employees
received personal invitations to attend the Future
Faculty Career Fair. The event attracted over 150
individuals with over 20 percent reflecting diversity.
Student Today,
Employee Tomorrow
This concept, first created in 2017 as “Student Today,
Instructor Tomorrow,” was a means to provide
opportunities to diverse students in terminal degree
programs who demonstrated potential to be an
instructor following attainment of occupational
experience. This program is currently being
analyzed and revamped as an inclusive “Student
Today, Employee Tomorrow” program to highlight
the multiple career pathways within student
employment and to create interest in working at
NWTC right out of graduation or in the near future.