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Despite the\u00a0increasing diversity<\/a>\u00a0among America\u2019s college students, business school professors remain overwhelmingly white.<\/p>\n

In U.S. business schools, Black and Hispanic individuals make up\u00a023.2%<\/a>\u00a0of students, yet only\u00a06.7%<\/a>\u00a0of the faculty.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0researcher<\/a>\u00a0with a long-standing interest in the reasons business schools lack diverse faculty, I \u2013 along with\u00a0marketing professor Sonja Martin Poole<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 set out to examine\u00a0how business schools select their faculty<\/a>. We did this by talking to 21 Black and Hispanic professors who have served on search committees at business schools throughout the U.S. We discovered four major reasons professors of color often get screened out of the process.<\/p>\n

1. Race is unmentionable<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Search committees rarely have open conversations about race as they search to diversify their faculty, the professors in our study told us. They described conversations about race as \u201canemic\u201d and \u201cuncomfortable,\u201d which in turn led people to avoid the topic.<\/p>\n

As one professor in our study stated regarding race, \u201cIf we don\u2019t talk about it we don\u2019t have a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The faculty members in our study described a variety of reasons they believed search committees avoided talking about race. These include different beliefs about fairness and fear of saying something that could lead them to be seen as racist. The silence on race ended up creating a perception among the Black and Hispanic faculty members in our study that the search committees were not concerned with racial justice.<\/p>\n

When discussions about race are hampered, we believe it makes it more difficult to recruit diverse faculty.<\/p>\n

2.\u2018Diversity\u2019 is poorly understood<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Faculty members told us that many of their colleagues thought their school was already diverse since the schools had business professors from around the world.<\/p>\n

This view is at odds with most\u00a0diversity efforts<\/a>\u00a0in American higher education, which aim to increase Black and Hispanic faculty members from the U.S. because of historical disadvantages that both groups have faced in this country.<\/p>\n

Others discussed broad views of diversity, which included sexual preference, gender orientation and diversity of thought as important criteria.<\/p>\n

The absence of a clear definition of diversity enables individual search committee members to define or interpret diversity as they see fit. It also makes it difficult to assess whether diversity goals are actually being met.<\/p>\n

3. Blind faith in \u2018colorblind\u2019 criteria<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Even though search committees were using supposedly merit-based or \u201ccolorblind\u201d criteria, Black and Hispanic candidates still got screened out of the process.<\/p>\n

For instance, search committees might consider the number of times a candidate has been published in an academic journal. But this ignores the fact that many Black and Hispanic scholars may study race-related topics, which are\u00a0largely absent from and marginalized<\/a>\u00a0at top-ranked marketing journals. The rank of a journal where an article is published is used to assess faculty members for tenure and promotion. Publication at top-ranked journals is typically a requirement for tenure at most universities.<\/p>\n

Search committees also consider the status of the school from which the candidate received their doctorate, as well as who was their adviser. Historically,\u00a0elite schools<\/a>\u00a0have had limited racial diversity among their faculty. Even potential Black and Hispanic doctoral students face biases and are the\u00a0least likely to receive responses from faculty<\/a>\u00a0as they seek academic mentors and support.<\/p>\n

Search committee members also told us that hiring committees often do not value the extra work that many Black and Hispanic doctoral students perform. This extra work includes mentoring students of color, consulting with administrators on issues related to Black and Hispanic populations and serving as what the study participants viewed as being \u201ctoken members\u201d on various committees.<\/p>\n

4. Hierarchy and gatekeepers matter<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Faculty members in our study felt they were invited to be on search committees to be the token \u201cdiversity voice.\u201d But the presence of Black and Hispanic faculty members on search committees does not necessarily lead to the hiring of diverse candidates. The reason is that powerful committee members \u2013 such as the department chair and full professors \u2013 often determine whom is eventually hired.<\/p>\n

Given Black and Hispanic faculty members were often \u201cthe only one\u201d from their group on these search committees, and rarely at the full professor level, typically they felt they had to go against the grain to disrupt any observed bias.<\/p>\n

At business schools that had more racially diverse faculty, some participants told us that there were strong diversity advocates in senior administration or on the faculty. This suggests that strong diversity advocates \u2013 not the hiring practices these schools have in place \u2013 are what\u2019s yielding a diverse faculty. Once those advocates leave, future hires may not be as diverse.<\/p>\n

Despite\u00a0improvements in faculty diversity<\/a>, many students leave college without ever having learned from a Black or Latinx business professor. The absence of racially diverse faculty cheats students out of a high-quality education by limiting their exposure to the views of educators from diverse racial backgrounds.<\/p>\n

In order to bring about more diversity among business school faculty, I believe colleges and universities must acknowledge the various ways race influences faculty hiring in order to find ways to make hiring more inclusive.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Sonya A. Grier is <\/span>Professor of Marketing at American University Kogod School of Business<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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