ABSTRACT
Among the arenas on college campuses where efforts at increasing diversity have been made, achieving faculty diversity requires urgent attention. Change has certainly occurred, but it has not been sufficient to provide the institutional capacity required for an increasingly pluralistic student body and society. The concept of faculty diversity is complex, and can be defined in a variety of ways that impact policy and practice. A full discussion of this concept as it addresses both inclusion and differentiation, in addition to intersecting identities, is provided elsewhere (Smith 2009; see also Cook and Córdova 2006). Rather than addressing the full spectrum of faculty diversity, this chapter focuses on its salient aspects of race/ethnicity and gender, and addresses central problems as well as possible solutions for increasing faculty diversity in U.S. higher education.
