Faculty Diversity: Problems and SolutionsJoAnn Moody shows majority campuses, faculty, and administrators how to dismantle the high barriers that block women and especially minorities from entry and advancement in the professoriate. Good practices for improving recruitment, evaluation, mentorship, and retention are offered. |
Contents
PROBLEMS | 11 |
Succeeding Outside the Ivy Walls | 39 |
Extra Disadvantages for Colonized Minorities | 65 |
SOLUTIONS | 89 |
Good Practices in Retention | 113 |
Good Practices in Mentoring | 129 |
Macrocosmic and Microcosmic | 159 |
Minority and Majority Faculty Speak | 173 |
Second Week as a New Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering | 194 |
Preparing for the Tenure Review | 199 |
Conversation between a Mentor and Mentee | 204 |
Deliberations of a Tenure and Promotion Committee | 208 |
Conclusion | 215 |
| 217 | |
Checklist of Chapter Contents | 231 |
| 237 | |
Bad Practices | 185 |
Deliberations of an Academic Search Committee | 186 |
An Academic Search Committee Narrows the Field | 190 |
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