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Connections with Campus Centers + Programs
Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, + Teaching Professors
Visiting Assistant Professors (VAPs)
On this page:
Connections with Campus Centers + Programs
Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, + Teaching Professors
Visiting Assistant Professors (VAPs)
Sometimes, job applicants and candidates have questions about a department’s culture and what it’s like to live and work at a particular institution/town given its demographic composition and other socio-cultural characteristics. People may want to ask questions like these in confidence, outside the context of the formal search committee. The following PBS faculty, who are not on the search committee, are happy to serve as such contacts (i.e., be search advocates). We encourage potential applicants and candidates to reach out to these faculty if they have such questions.
Contact information for search advocates to ask questions about the hiring process, department, campus, and Bloomington:
Indiana University President Pamela Whitten is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Shortly after her arrival in summer of 2021, she launched a 7-year, $30 million Presidential Diversity Hiring Initiative. In the first cohort of 103 Bloomington tenure-track faculty hired since the launch of this program, 48% identify as people of color, 53% women, and they represent 18 different countries. Annual reports on the state of diversity at Indiana University and its campuses may be found here.
As with the campus, the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) is committed to fostering a community of diverse faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff from across a wide range of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ability status, socioeconomic status, immigration status, and other forms of difference. PBS values diversity, equity, and inclusion as core strengths and essential elements of its mission.
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES)
STEM Inclusive Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (SIPFP)
Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (ICTSI)
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL)
Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET)