IDEAS AND INSIGHTS

Undoing Years of Affirmative Action: The Growth of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

When thinking about equity gaps in faculty hiring and promotion, campus leaders tend to think exclusively about tenure-track faculty. Yet, tenured or tenure-track faculty make up only 30 percent of the faculty nationally.

Redoubling Our Efforts: How Institutions Can Affect Faculty Diversity

As students across the country protested incidents of racism and discrimination on and off campus in 2015–16, they called attention to the small numbers of Black, Latinx, and Native American professors on their campuses, and faculty diversity has consistently appeared on activists’ lists of demands.