Faculty Diversity

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:a New strategies to prevent unintended cognitive bias and errors that damage faculty recruitment and retentionExpanded discussion on the importance of different cultural contexts, political, and historical experiences inhabited and inherited by non-immigrant faculty and studentsIncreased testimonials and on-the-ground reflections from faculty, administrators, and leaders in higher education, with new attention to medical and other professional schoolsUpdated Appendix with Discussion Scenarios and Practice Exercises useful to search and evaluation committees, department chairs, deans, faculty senates, and diversity councilsExpanded 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.

Autorentext

JoAnn Moody PhD, JD, is a national consultant in faculty development and diversity (see www.diversityoncampus.com). She is a former college professor and higher education administrator.

Inhalt

Introduction

PART ONE: THE BARRIERS TO FACULTY DIVERSITY

Chapter 1: Cognitive Errors that Contaminate Academic Evaluations and Block Faculty Diversity

Chapter 2: Negative Bias and Positive Bias: Two Powerful Cognitive Errors that Impede the Advancement of Some Faculty and speed the Advancement of Others

Chapter 3: Disadvantages for Non-Immigrant Groups but Advantages for Immigrant and "Honorary White" Groups

PART TWO: REMOVING THE BARRIERS TO FACULTY DIVERSITY

Chapter 4: Faculty Recruitment: Replacing Dysfunctional Practices with Good Practices

Chapter 5: Faculty Retention: Replacing Dysfunctional Practices with Good Practices

Chapter 6: Faculty Mentoring: Replacing Dysfunctional Practices with Good Practices

Conclusion

Appendix A: A Colonized Group in Another Country: The Same Caste-Like Pattern

Appendix B: Imprisonment of African-American Men: A New Caste-System Invented in 1980

Appendix C: Caste Systems

Appendix D: Reproduction of Group Inequalities by Standardized and High-Stakes Testing

Appendix E: Discussion Scenarios-Practice Exercises

References