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How to Improve Your Recruiting of Minority Faculty Members

Thursday, October 25, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time

National statistics show that the professoriate is becoming more and more diverse. Yet the increase in the proportion of minority scholars in the United States over the last decade has continued to lag behind because the number of white and foreign professors has also risen. With the baby-boom generation of professors beginning to retire, colleges will have enormous opportunities to diversify their faculty ranks. But what's the best way to achieve that goal? Should institutions have more programs to encourage their minority graduate students to stay on and teach, or should they focus on recruiting from other institutions and graduate schools?

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The Guest

Desdemona Cardoza is provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University at Los Angeles. The institution has one of the most diverse faculties in the country (40 percent of its full-time professors are from racial and ethnic minority groups), helped in part by a Cal State program that repays up to $30,000 in graduate-school loans for Ph.D. seekers if they teach on a Cal State campus after earning their doctorates. Ms. Cardoza, whose work was described in a recent Chronicle article, will answer questions and explain how her campus has diversified its faculty. He will respond to questions and comments about these issues on Thursday, October 25, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time. Readers are welcome to post questions and comments now.

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