Instead, be able to discuss what the contemporary research says about best practices in the field and how those findings shape your view of the work at hand.
“In today’s context right now of higher education, anyone who’s going for a position like that has to have some sort of philosophy lens that’s forming their thinking around this topic,” said Sharon Fries-Britt, associate professor of higher education at the University of Maryland at College Park.
“There’s no excuse for someone to come through at that level and not have been thinking about diversity, even if not thinking about it directly,” said Fries-Britt, who chaired a search committee for her institution’s chief diversity officer, or CDO.
