The Hiring Practice Subcommittee is focused on documenting, understanding, and transforming hiring practices for faculty and staff within the UNM HSC. Our top priorities at this early stage of work are to fully understand and document how hiring occurs within the UNM HSC and create recommendations to improve the hiring process where necessary, with the goal of ensuring that everything possible is being done to improve the representation of diverse groups within all levels of the UNM HSC.
Objective: To guide data practices to close gaps in reporting, completeness, transparency, and availability to support community, provider, and tribe-specific needs and appeals.
Working Groups / Top Priorities:
We understand that budgets are moral documents, and that there are ethical, economic, social, and legal implications for each investment decision that UNM, UNMH and all of the Health System entities make. Our leadership must center the treatment and rights afforded to those most marginalized and underrepresented members of our New Mexico community. Our subcommittee aims to advance an antiracist framework at our institution around the following areas: Investments/Divestment, Relationships with Police and Prisons, Obligations to Indigenous and Indigent Communities, and Low Wage Workers.
Our committee is determined to change the inequitable admissions process for all schools at the HSC, in order to promote and institutionalize a more diverse student body that recognizes the importance of cultural heritage and community as an added value to the education of HSC students. One of our group's priorities is to reevaluate current pipeline programs throughout the HSC and make positive adjustments where needed to ensure the success of students, especially those from marginalized backgrounds.
The Education Committee is focusing its work on reform to both curriculum and student support resources across the Health Sciences Center. Much of our current focus is on:
We are composed of representatives from the following sub-committees: Undergraduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education, Health Professions, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and College of Population Health.
