Planning for Higher Education Journal

Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Faculty

From Volume 30 Number 4 | Summer 2002

By Rhonda Phillips

Planning Types: Academic Planning, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning

Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Faculty

Institutions referenced in this resource:
University of California-Irvine, University of Florida, Harvard University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University in the City of New York, Iowa State University, Ohio State University-Main Campus, University of Iowa, University of Missouri-Columbia, Michigan State University

Recruiting and retaining women and minority faculty members is a particularly challenging workforce development issue facing many universities. This article summarizes current literature and the results of a survey of selected institutions to gauge responses to this challenge. All the survey respondents indicated that recruitment of women and minority candidates has been problematic, that retention problems vary, and that job placement is difficult and can negatively influence the recruitment and retention of women and minority faculty members. Job placement for partners has been most difficult for those universities located in small- to mid-sized cities. A variety of programs have been attempted to alleviate problems of recruitment and retention.

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