ABSTRACT
As you read each scenario, ask yourself: What’s going wrong here? Going right? What bad practices and ineffective behavior-regarding recruiting, evaluating, mentoring, and retaining-are being illustrated? What Good Practices and strategies from chapters 4 through 6 should replace these? What steps should I or my colleagues take to help promote or institutionalize these Good Practices? At the end of each scenario, I have provided a Discussion Guide that offers more formal assistance. Six scenarios are included in this chapter:
1. Deliberations of an Academic Search Committee 2. An Academic Search Committee Narrows the Field 3. Second Week as a New Assistant Professor of Mechanical En-
gineering 4. Preparing for the Tenure Review 5. Conversation between a Mentor and Mentee 6. Deliberations of a Tenure and Promotion Committee
This search committee is composed of three full professors of chemical engineering. Two (including the committee chair) are male, one is female; all are from European-American backgrounds and reared in the United States. Following is a glimpse of the committee members’ conversation about the five finalists in their job search: Three job candidates are European-American males, one is an European-American female, and one is an African-American male.
