Tools for a diverse college faculty

Building and Sustaining a Diverse Faculty: Implications for Faculty Advancement and Reward Systems

Even though academic research is often viewed as the preferred career path for PhD trained scientists, most U.S. graduatesenter careers in industry, government, or ‘‘alternative careers.’’ There has been a growing concern that these career patternsreflect fundamental imbalances between the supply of scientists seeking academic positions and the availability of suchpositions. However...

Scientific Teaching Targeting Faculty from Diverse Institutions

We offered four annual professional development workshops called STAR (for Scientific Teaching, Assessment, and Resources) modeled after the National Academies Summer Institute (SI) on Undergraduate Education in Biology. In contrast to the SI focus on training faculty from research universities, STAR's target was faculty from community colleges, 2-yr campuses, and public and private research un...

Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty

This article first examines the ideological composition of American university faculty and then tests whether ideological homogeneity has become self-reinforcing. A randomly based national survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges and universities finds that liberals and Democrats outnumber conservatives and Republicans by large margins, and the differences are not limited to e...

Unconscious racist bias: barrier to a diverse nursing faculty.

Do chiropractic college faculty understand informed consent: a pilot study

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to survey full-time faculty at a single chiropractic college concerning their knowledge of Institutional Review Board (IRB) policies in their institution as they pertain to educational research. METHODS All full-time faculty were invited to participate in an anonymous survey. Four scenarios involving educational research were described and respondents ...