ERIC Number: EJ964774
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Publication Date: 2011-Oct-13
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Taking Stock
Miranda, Maria Eugenia
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, v28 n18 p14-15 Oct 2011
During the past 10 years, Cornell University has made significant strides in recruiting underrepresented minorities and women in its faculty ranks, but a new internal study at the university is revealing that its success is a mixed bag. The number of minority faculty has grown about 52 percent, and the number of female faculty members has increased more than 38 percent in the last decade, according to a 2008 report by Dr. Robert Harris Jr., the former vice provost for diversity and faculty development. Meanwhile Dr. Zellman Warhaft was commissioned by the university provost to conduct follow-up study on Cornell's diversity recruitment. So far, Warhaft concludes that women and minorities still think that the campus climate is less favorable to them, based on initial feedback from e-mail surveys and in-person interviews. However, overall, women perceive the environment at Cornell to be more favorable to them than do underrepresented minorities, says Warhaft. Warhaft adds that Cornell has a way to go in recruiting and retaining a diverse staff, but the fact that the provost decided it was time to assess the situation with a report shows that diversity is a priority.
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Mail Surveys, Followup Studies, Recruitment, College Faculty, Minority Groups, Faculty Recruitment, Affirmative Action, Diversity (Faculty), Program Attitudes, Organizational Culture
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