Keeping our Faculties:
Addressing the Recruitment and Retention
of Faculty of Color in Higher Education
Symposium held October 18-20,
1998
List of Resources
Videos and Interactive Technology
Through My Lens
Video, 15 minutes
Contact Information: The Women of Color
in the Academy Project,
sponsored by the Center for the Education
of Women and the Women's Studies Program,
The University of Michigan
Center for the Education of Women
Attn: Gloria D. Thomas
330 E. Liberty Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2289
(734) 998-7080
Email: gthomas@umich.edu
This video describes the experiences,
challenges, and strategies of women
of color faculty at the University of
Michigan. Target audience: administrators
and university leaders. Goal: to define
and document experiences of women of
color, building upon the positive and
seeking to eliminate the negative. Explores
institutional climate, isolation, lack
of community, and maintaining balance
between career and family. Describes
successful strategies for effective
recruitment, support, and retention
for faculty women of color.
Shattering the Silences
Video, 90 minutes
California Newsreel
149 Ninth Street
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Phone: 415-621-6196; Fax: 415-621-6522
e-mail: newsreel@ix.netcom.com; Website:
www.newsreel.org
Eight scholars describe how they transformed
and were transformed by their respective
disciplines and institutions, with a
focus on intellectual rigor, academic
honesty, and racial justice. Demonstrates
the educational benefits of faculty
diversity but also describes the challenges
and pressures faced by faculty of color
at predominately white institutions.
Moss Cairns LLC
Sonia Cairns
821 Marquette Avenue, Suite 1615
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Phone: 612-371-9391
e-mail: scairns@mosscairns.com
A Minneapolis-based public affairs
consulting firm providing audience feedback
technology. Participants can respond
immediately and anonymously to preplanned
or spontaneous questions during the
meeting. Useful to focus discussion
during the session or to generate action
steps after the conference. Available
for groups of 20 or 2,000.
Selected Publications by Plenary
Speakers
Alger, Jonathan R. (1997, January-February).
The educational value of diversity.
Academe, 83, 20-23.
______. (1998, January-February). Bakke:
Still breathing but barely. Academe,
88.
______. (1998b, July-August). Minority
faculty and measuring merit: Start by
playing fair. Academe, 84,
71 .
Astin, H. S., Antonio, a. l., Cress,
C. M., & Astin, A. W. (1997, April).
Race and ethnicity in the American professoriate,
1995-1996. Los Angeles: Higher Education
Research Institute, Graduate School
of Education & Information Studies.
antonio, anthony lising, Astin, H.
S., Cress, C. M. (under review). Community
service in higher education: A look
at the nation's faculty. Change
Magazine.
Ards, Sheila. (1997). The road to tenure
and beyond for African American political
scientists. Journal of Negro Education,
66 (2), 159-171.
Cuadraz, Gloria Holguin.(1996). Experiences
of multiple marginality: A case study
of Chicana scholarship women. Reprinted
in C. S.V. Turner, M. Garcia, A. Nora,
& L.I. Rendon (Eds.), Racial
and ethnic diversity in higher education
(pp. 210-222). Needham Heights, MA:
Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
Davis, Josephine D. (1993). Coloring
the halls of ivy: Leadership and diversity
in the academy. Boston, MA: Anker
Publishing.
Garcia, Mildred. (1997). Affirmative
action's testament of hope: Strategies
for a new era in higher education.
Albany, NY: State University of New
York Press.
Hune, Shirley. (1997). Asian Pacific
American women in higher education:
Claiming visibility & voice.
Washington, D.C.: Association of American
Colleges and Universities.
______, & Chan, K.S. (1997). Special
focus: Asian Pacific American demographic
and educational trends. 15th Annual
Status Report. Washington, D.C.:
American Counsel on Education.
Peterson-Hickey, Melanie. (1998). American
Indian Faculty Experiences: Culture
as a Challenge and Source of Strength.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Rains, Frances V. (1995). Views from
within: Women faculty of color in a
research university. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington.
______. (in press). Dancing on the
sharp edge of the sword: Women faculty
of color in White academe in L. Christian-Smith
& K. Kellor (Eds.), Everyday
knowledge and uncommon truths: Life
writings and women's experiences in
and outside the academy, city:
Westview Press.
Smith, Daryl G., L.E. Wolf, & B.E.
Busenberg. (1996). Achieving Faculty
Diversity: Debunking the Myths.
Washington, DC: Association of American
Colleges and Universities.
Stein, Wayne. (1992). Tribally controlled
colleges: Making good medicine. New
York: Peter Lang.
______. (1994). Survival of American
Indian faculty in four-year institutions.
Thought and Action: NEA Higher Education
Journal, 10 (1), 101-114.
Tierney, William G. (1993). Building
communities of difference: Higher education
in the 21st century. Westport,
CT: Bergin & Garvey.
______. & Bensimon, E. M. (1996).
Promotion and tenure: Community
and socialization in academe. Albany,
NY: State University of New York Press.
Turner, Caroline Sotello V. (n press).
Promotion and tenure for faculty of
color: Promoting business as unusual
in M. Garcia, title, city: Greenwood
Publishing.
______, Garcia, M., Nora, A., &
Rendon, L. I. (1996). Racial and
ethnic diversity in higher education.
Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster
Custom Publishing.
______, & Myers, S. M., Jr. (June
1999). Faculty of color in academe:
Bittersweet success. Needham Heights,
MA: Allyn & Bacon.
______, & Myers, S.M., Jr., &
Creswell, J.W. (1999, January-February).
Exploring underrepresentation: The case
of faculty of color in the midwest.
Journal of Higher Education,
70 (1), 27-59.
Selected Publications in the
Literature
Boice, R. (1992). The new faculty
member: Supporting and fostering professional
development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship
reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate.
Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching.
Duster, T. (1991, November). The
diversity project: Final report.
Institute for Social Change: University
of California, Berkeley.
Leap, T. L. (1995). Tenure, discrimination,
and the courts. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press.
Light, P. (1994). Diversity in the
faculty "not like us": Moving
barriers to minority recruitment. Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management,
13 (1), 163-186.
Mickelson, R.A., & Oliver, M.L.
(1991). Making the short list: Black
candidates and the faculty recruitment
process. In P.G.Altbach,. & K.Lomotey,
(Eds.), The racial crisis in American
higher education (pp. 149-166).
Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Padilla, A. M. (1994). Ethnic minority
scholars, research, and mentoring: Current
and future issues. Educational Researcher,
23 (4), 24-27.
Pertinent Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964. 42 U.S.C.
Sec. 2000e et seq.
Title VI prohibits discrimination on
the basis of race, color, and national
origin in educational programs and activities.
Applies mainly to students.
Title VII prohibits discrimination
on the basis of race, color and national
origin in terms and conditions of employment.
Executive Order No. 11246 (1965). Reprinted
as amended in 1 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMPL.
MAN. (BNA) 101. Prohibits discrimination
on the basis of race and national origin;
mandates affirmative action for minorities
and women where federal government contractors,
including universities, are involved.
Regents of University of California
v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).
Web Sites
American Association of University
Professors. http://www.aaup.org.
See "Diversity & Affirmative
Action in Higher Education" under
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