ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some answer to the questions using stories and research from the literature on African-American faculty, staff, and administrators at predominantly white institutions (PWIs). It shares some of the author’s personal experiences and suggestions for aspiring African-American administrators and the PWIs recruiting and retaining them. The author shows more African-American faculty, staff, and administrators successfully recruited and retained at PWIs. One common theme for both faculty and administrators at PWIs, especially during the recruitment process, is institutional commitment. A good example of this comes from an article about the declining number of tenured and tenure-track black faculty at Yale. To maximize recruitment of faculty of color, a university should consider two things: The first and most important thing is that there is an institutional commitment to diversity from the president to the provost to the deans to the department heads as well as the faculty.
