NJ A2467

Public institutions of higher education must develop faculty and student diversity plans with specific recruitment and retention goals for diverse students, faculty, and staff, updated every three years

Institutions must submit annual student diversity reports to the Secretary of Higher Education containing enrollment, retention, graduation, and certification rates broken down by race, ethnicity, and gender for each academic program

Each institution's governing board must assign staff diversity ambassadors for each school and college who report directly to the president and ensure implementation of diversity plans

All faculty, staff, and students who may serve on faculty search committees must receive annual diversity training covering unconscious bias interventions and strategies for fair candidate evaluation

The Secretary of Higher Education and Director of the Division on Civil Rights must develop guidance on faculty search and selection best practices to help institutions identify, recruit, and retain diverse faculty