Equity

What is Equity?

The term “equity” refers to fairness and justice and is distinguished from equality: Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances. The process is ongoing, requiring us to identify and overcome intentional and unintentional barriers arising from bias or systemic structures.

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Recruiting for Equity at HBCUs and Beyond: Current Practices and Pitfalls

NEW! Recruiting for Equity at HBCUs and Beyond: Current Practices and Pitfalls

This new study from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) explores employers’ commitments to and understanding of the issue of equity in recruiting (EiR). Funded through the generosity of organizations that sponsored NACE’s 2021 HBCU Summit and conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Historically Black Colleges & Universities (the Center), the study focuses on what employers are doing to recruit and retain diverse interns.

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NACE Diversity Graduate Profile Report: Business

NACE Diversity Graduate Profile Report: Business

Majors Include: All Business majors (broad category total); Accounting; Business Administration/Management; Finance; Management Information Systems; Marketing; Master of Business Administration.

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NACE Diversity Graduate Profile Report: Computer Science

Majors: All Computer Science majors (broad category total); Computer Systems Analysis; Computer Science; Computer/Information Technology Administration & Management; Computer Systems Networking; Information Science; Software & Media Applications.

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NACE Diversity Graduate Profile Report: Engineering

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NACE Diversity Graduate Profile Report: HBCUs

Majors: Accounting, All Business Majors (Broad Category total); All Engineering Majors (Broad Category total); All Computer Science Majors (Broad Category total); Business Administration; Computer Science; English; History; Liberal Arts and Humanities; Math and Statistics; Philosophy; Social Sciences.

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NACE Diversity Graduate Profile Report: Interdisciplinary Studies

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NACE Diversity Graduate Profile Report: Math/Humanities/Social Science

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Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling Appears to Have No Impact on Employers’ DEI Recruiting Priorities

May 6, 2024 | By Kevin Gray

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Despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling overturning affirmative action, the decision appears to be having little to no impact on employers’ DEI recruiting priorities, according to results of NACE’s Job Outlook 2024 Spring Update survey. 



NACE Dashboard: Access And Analyze the Job Outlook 2024 Spring Update Survey Data
NACE members have access to the full set of data from the survey through its dashboard in MyNACE. This is an invaluable way for your team to gain insight into trends and issues, and enhance your ability to develop solutions and advocate for and market your department. For directions and tips on how to use a NACE research report dashboard, please see this YouTube video.

For fall 2024, less than 5% of respondents indicated the ruling would impact their DEI recruiting priorities for intern positions, while less than 4% reported that it would impact their DEI recruiting priorities for entry-level positions.

This lack of impact is even more pronounced over the next year as no respondents will decrease their DEI recruiting priorities. Instead, more than 30% of respondents plan to increase these efforts for both entry-level and intern positions.

Meanwhile, nearly 60% of respondents will maintain their DEI recruiting priorities for both types of positions, and the remainder, slightly more than 7%, reported that they do not have DEI recruiting priorities.

The Job Outlook 2024 Spring Update survey was conducted from February 6 – March 15, 2024. Of the 226 total respondents, 185 were NACE employer members, representing 21.0% of eligible member respondents. The Job Outlook 2024 Spring Update survey was also distributed to nonmember companies; this group provided an additional 41 responses. The survey updates hiring projections for the Class of 2024; those projections were collected from NACE employer members from August 2 – September 18, 2023, and were reported in Job Outlook 2024, which was published in November 2023. NACE members can access the Job Outlook 2024 Spring Update survey dashboard on NACEWeb.

blank default headshot of a user Kevin Gray is an associate editor at NACE. He can be reached at kgray@naceweb.org.