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Three Ways Colleges and Universities Can Increase Inclusion of Black and Latino Faculty
Black and Latino faculty are disappointingly outnumbered by their white male and female counterparts on college campuses across the country. In 2018, Black and Latino professors made up less than 10% — respectively — of the overall population of currently working scholars. Disproportionate representation of Black and Latino scholars in academic disciplines create opportunities for bullying, stigmatization, ostracizing, segregation, alienation, and more to create barriers between these Black and Latino scholars and their upward channel of mobility. When we pass these folks over in hiring processes and tenure review, we contribute to a larger and more sinister erasure of culture and heritage through the homogenization of American education. Below, we identify three ways academic departments and institutions can support the scholarship, teaching and learning, and professional service — the three components of a strong tenure dossier — opportunities for racialized and oppressed scholars on campus.
Research Funding: Contributing to the progress of one’s chosen discipline is not cheap. Experiments cost money. Grant funding accounts for a substantial amount of research at academic institutions across the United States. A substantial gap exists between Black and white researchers, specifically, in terms…
