James Guevara, M.D., M.P.H., of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether
minority faculty development programs targeting underrepresented minority faculty are associated with increases in underrepresented minority faculty representation, recruitment, and promotion.
In subgroup analyses,
minority faculty development programs that were present for ≥ 5 years and had more components were associated with greater increases in underrepresented minority faculty representation.
Of 124 eligible schools, 36 (29 percent) were identified with
a minority faculty development program in 2010.
Schools with
minority faculty development programs had a similar increase in percentage of underrepresented minority faculty as schools without
minority faculty development programs (6.5 percent in 2000 to 7.4 percent in 2010 vs. 7.0 percent to 8.3 percent).
«Although it is clear that efforts to enhance diversity and inclusion are increasing, it is not clear whether
minority faculty development programs are effective in general at enhancing the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority faculty.»
After adjustment for faculty and school characteristics,
minority faculty development programs were not associated with greater representation of minority faculty, recruitment, or promotion.
Not exact matches
During his tenure, Reif presided over the
development of Web projects that offer MIT and Harvard University courses online for free and led
faculty efforts to recruit and retain
minorities and women.
Few in Number, Harvard's
Minority Faculty Face Additional Burdens Harvard Crimson, 5/8/15» «Go into the
faculty meeting room of the FAS and look at all the pictures and the busts,» says [Professor] Judith D. Singer, Harvard's senior vice provost for
faculty development and diversity.
The Walmart
Minority Student Success Initiative helped MSIs identify problems unique to their first - generation students and to assist in the
development of
faculty driven, classroom based strategies to foster increased student success.
According to Wanda Hamilton, who oversees staff
development for the district, educating
faculty and staff on teaching language
minority students «drives everything.»