Faculty

Diversifying the Faculty

Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner
Published by AAC&U, this guidebook is a crucial resource for successfully recruiting and retaining faculty of color, offering practical suggestions for before, during, and after the search.

Executive Summary from the Keeping our Faculties Symposium
This executive summary distills information from the presentations of several speakers, focusing on their recommendations, from the October 18-20, 1998, national symposium, "Keeping Our Faculties: Addressing the Recruitment and Retention of Faculty of Color in Higher Education," sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. This meeting provided space for dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and policy makers aimed at generating useful strategies for increasing faculty diversity on college and university campuses.A list of resources is also provided.

Shattering the Silences (distributed by Resolution Inc./California Newsreel)
This 90-minute documentary video explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, focusing on the experiences of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at a wide range of institutions. The program illustrates ways in which teaching and research by these scholars — who are Asian-American, African-American, Native American, and Latino — affect students, university communities, and the academic disciplines in which they work. The Web site gives an overview of the film, the scholars involved, and resources for students, faculty, and adminstrators in higher education, as well as for high school students, parents, and counselors.

Compact for Faculty Diversity (pdf)
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), along with two other regional interstate higher education compacts, the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) and the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), have established this five-year effort to prepare new minority faculty and to improve graduate education at the departmental level.

Under the auspices of the Compact, WICHE has established the WICHE Doctoral Scholars Program for minority doctoral students who intend to enter careers in college teaching. NEBHE has created the Excellence Through Diversity Initiative with two primary components, the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Academic Support Network and the Doctoral Scholars Program, which are designed to work with students in high school, college and graduate school. SREB administers the Doctoral Scholars Program as part of the Compact for Faculty Diversity.

AAC&U offers these resources only as possible models of interest and has not submitted each of them to any substantial peer or quality review. If you have questions about any particular resource, please contact the institution sponsoring it directly.