Equal Opportunity Employment and Recruitment
Vassar College is committed to attracting and retaining a highly qualified and diverse workforce to foster the college’s academic mission. Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action efforts are jointly supported by the Dean of Faculty Office in the recruitment of faculty, and by Human Resources in the recruitment of administrators and staff. The Director of Equal Opportunity and Faculty Director of Affirmative Action assists College personnel who are responsible for employment in maintaining and strengthening Vassar's commitment to equal opportunity and affirmative action in the hiring and retention of faculty and employees through hiring workshops and direct consultation with search chairs and committees.
Policy on Affirmative Action
Vassar College states that it has been, and continues to be, its policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants in all job classifications without regard for race, color, religious belief, sex, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, veteran status or age. It is and continues to be the policy of Vassar College that all applicants for employment are recruited, hired and assigned on the basis of personal merit without discrimination because of race, color, religious belief, sex, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, veteran status or age. Furthermore, it is the practice of Vassar College to ensure that all its employees are treated equally and that no distinctions are made in compensation, promotion, and transfer because of the employee’s race, color, religious belief, sex, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, veteran status or age.
Vassar College states that its policy of equal employment opportunity will continue to be maintained. It fully recognizes, however, that the passive avoidance of overt discrimination is not sufficient to further employment opportunity for qualified members of groups formerly underrepresented. Therefore, it is and will be the practice of Vassar College to seek out qualified candidates for appointment and promotion among minority group members and women for positions where they have been inadequately represented in the past.
Fundamental to these statements of institutional policy is the affirmation that the presence on the faculty of women and members of ethnic and racial minorities is needed if the College is to fulfill its educational mission. The intent of the policy is that affirmative action at Vassar be not simply formal compliance with the law but a vigorous program of recruitment and appointment.