From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Whatever Happened to All Those Plans to Hire More Minority Professors?
Results often fall short of ambitions, but nobody’s giving upBack in the early 1990s, when colleges throughout the United States were desperately trying to recruit more minority professors, Duke University came up with a particularly ambitious plan. It announced that it would double the number of its black professors within a decade.
Did Duke succeed?
Anyone seeking to answer that question — at Duke and at other universities that launched aggressive recruiting plans — should be prepared to do some ferocious number crunching, and to understand that the outcome can depend a lot on who’s doing the counting.
And:
Wisconsin’s record with Hispanic and American Indian faculty members has been stronger. The university had 77 Hispanic professors in 2007, up from 53 in 1998, and 13 American Indian professors, up from four in 1998.
The growth of American Indian studies — in a state that is home to several Indian tribes — has helped attract new American Indian professors to the campus, Mr. Farrell says. “Professors who visit say, ‘OK, here’s a place where people from our background can thrive, fit in, and have success.'”
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