Report urges scientists to recruit, retain more women and minorities

What does it take to recruit and retain senior women faculty?

eLife deputy editor Fiona M Watt recounts some of her personal experiences as a senior female academic in a male-dominated environment.

Recruit and retain. America's dwindling pool.

Strategies to recruit and retain college smokers in cessation trials.

Techniques to recruit and retain college fraternity and sorority members who reported past 30-day smoking into a cessation trial are described. Recruitment efforts included relationship-building, raffles, and screening survey administration during existing meetings. Surveys were administered to 76% (n = 3,276) of members in 30 chapters, 79% of eligible members agreed to participate, and 76% of ...

Recruit, Retain and Lead: The Public Library Workforce Study

The data from the research suggest that an effective workforce does not depend on any one factor in isolation. People are attracted to the public library service because the work is seen as having a public service ethos and providing opportunities to work with the public and communities. However the overall picture is that the negative image of the profession has some basis in reality. The rese...

Recruit, Prepare, and Retain Teachers of Color in Nevada

Nevada Facts & Statistics • In the 2012-13 academic year, students of color comprised 63 percent of the statewide student population, while teachers of color represented only 19 percent of the corps. • Within the Clark County School District (CCSD), whites represented only 26.2 percent of the student body in academic year 2015-16, but 72.9 percent of the teachers. • Nevada’s diversity index is ...