ABSTRACT

Why do we see so little progress in diversifying faculty at America’s colleges, universities, and professional schools? This book explores this important question and provides steps for hastening faculty diversity. Drawing on her extensive consultant practice and expertise as well as research and scholarship from several fields, Dr. Moody provides practical and feasible ways to improve faculty recruitment, retention, and mentorship, especially of under-represented women in science-related fields and non-immigrant minorities in all fields. The second edition of Faculty Diversity offers new insights, strategies, and caveats to the current state of faculty diversity.

This revised edition includes: 

  • New strategies to prevent unintended cognitive bias and errors that damage faculty recruitment and retention
  • Expanded discussion on the importance of different cultural contexts, political, and historical experiences inhabited and inherited by non-immigrant faculty and students
  • Increased testimonials and on-the-ground reflections from faculty, administrators, and leaders in higher education, with new attention to medical and other professional schools
  • Updated Appendix with Discussion Scenarios and Practice Exercises useful to search and evaluation committees, department chairs, deans, faculty senates, and diversity councils
  • Expanded chapter on mentoring that dispels myths about informal mentoring and underlines essential components for formal programs.

Moody provides an essential, reliable, and eye-opening guide for colleges, medical, and other professional schools that are frustrated in their efforts to diversify their faculty.

part |100 pages

The Barriers to Faculty Diversity

chapter |33 pages

Negative Bias and Positive Bias

Two Powerful Cognitive Errors that Impede the Advancement of Some Faculty and Speed the Advancement of Others

part |91 pages

Removing the Barriers to Faculty Diversity

chapter |29 pages

Faculty Recruitment

Replacing Dysfunctional Practices with Good Practices

chapter |26 pages

Faculty Retention

Replacing Dysfunctional Practices with Good Practices

chapter |34 pages

Faculty Mentoring

Replacing Dysfunctional Practices With Good Practices

chapter |8 pages

Conclusion and Next Steps