Office of Equal Opportunity and Access
Interview Question Examples
- Ask questions across the three domains – Values, Articulation and Skill.
- What would we expect the culturally competent and agile candidate to know?
- What would we expect the culturally competent and agile candidate to be able to do?
- Ask candidates for examples of how they’ve promoted or advanced diversity, inclusion and belonging in previous positions and/or how they will do so in the position they’re applying for.
- Ask candidates how they might adapt their work or presentation to reach a particular audience.
- Ask candidates how they assess the climate within a unit with respect to diversity, inclusion and belonging.
- Ask candidates to share any barriers or challenges they have encountered or that might exist in higher education with respect to promoting diversity, inclusion and belonging.
- Please share two different examples of how you taught (or how you might teach –for those with limited teaching experience) a group of students from diverse backgrounds who differed in their approaches to the subject matter.
- How did you determine the best way to incorporate these differences into the learning environment?
- How did these approaches impact students’ learning?
- How did you evaluate these approaches?