Faculty Development & Diversity (FD&D) serves as Harvard’s central faculty affairs office, coordinating efforts to recruit and retain outstanding scholars and teachers as we make increasing progress in diversifying Harvard’s faculty. We place a special emphasis on tenure-track faculty and on women and other historically marginalized groups at all academic ranks.
To achieve these goals, FD&D:
- coordinates efforts to strengthen Harvard’s faculty;
- provides University-wide programs that improve faculty life and enhance diversity;
- and collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on faculty demographics and appointments.
The Senior Vice Provost is a key adviser in the ad hoc tenure process, reviews tenure-track and senior non-ladder appointments in selected Schools, reviews School requests to appoint faculty to endowed chairs, and administers central funds that facilitate the appointment of outstanding faculty who simultaneously increase faculty excellence and diversity.