This subcommittee also serves as the affirmative action committee, which has been in operation for a number of years. The charge of this subcommittee is:

• to clarify staff classifications across campus, as well as hiring regions for each
• to establish goals, based on data from above, for ethnic diversity per "campus hiring region"
• to study retention/turnover rates for different employee constituencies
• to study the possibilities of expanding faculty hiring processes to certain staff positions

The current members of this subcommittee are:

• Maddie Marquez, chair, acting director for Center for Innovative Education and acting affirmative action officer
• Melissa Burch, assistant professor of cognitive development
• Michelle Bigenho, associate professor of anthropology
• Aracelis Girmay, assistant professor of poetry
• Cindy Gill, assistant professor of physiology
• Araiña Muñiz, housing director: Greenwich/Enfield House
• Daniel Schrade, associate professor of art
• Susan Weldon, human resources specialist