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title: How UMD is Increasing Faculty Diversity (The Baltimore Sun)
date: 2023-11-16T08:48:00-05:00
author: Mei Lu
canonical_url: "https://provost.umd.edu/news/how-um-is-increasing-faculty-diversity"
section: News
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# How UMD is Increasing Faculty Diversity (The Baltimore Sun)

*November 16, 2023* — by Mei Lu
> Provost Jennifer King Rice discusses how to better align faculty measures of success with our institutional goals and values to capture the wide range of impactful contributions that our faculty make. 

Provost Jennifer King Rice discusses how to better align faculty measures of success with our institutional goals and values to capture the wide range of impactful contributions that our faculty make.


> As we embrace more inclusive measures of impact, we will forge a path to recruiting, supporting and retaining the diverse and talented faculty we all seek.



- [CLick to read the op/ed on the Baltimore Sun](https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-rr-faculty-diversity-letter-20231102-rtj6yiy53zhobdianr2ay2wkey-story.html)