Faculty diversity? ‘When the guy in the white coat isn’t white, or a guy, every time’
“Academics have talked a good game about increasing campus diversity. In the wake of campus protests over issues of racial representation three years ago, some schools committed millions of dollars toward ending the paucity of black faculty. An article in The Hechinger Report last week, though, looked at new data on diversity and found that the needle hasn’t moved much. Schools that have been ‘promising for years to improve the diversity of their teaching ranks have made almost no progress.’ In the 10 years ending in 2016, in fact, the proportion of annual faculty hires who are black fell slightly, from 7 to 6.6 percent.”