Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success

Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Arizona State University, and the author of Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success and Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees. In these works and others, Sotello Viernes Turner and her co-authors review the growing research literature on hiring faculty of color and offer recommendations to search committees on how to improve the process. The most powerful data they show is that faculty of color will only be hired 5% of the time using standard search processes. They advocate an interventionist orientation in changing the composition and nature of searches.