The U.S. children's wear market is expected to drive the market to a value of $72.7 billion by the end of 2019 with an anticipated compound annual growth rate of 4.5% for the 5-year period 2014-2019 (Market Line 2015). The children's wear market has demonstrated steady, moderate growth insusceptible to the economic recession and fluctuations, as contrasted with other market segments, such as men's wear and women's wear
Despite recruitment strategies and efforts to attract and retain ethnic minorities and women in private and public universities across this nation the challenge for parity still exists. Though presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, and faculty search committees have come to realize and align with the educational benefits of having such diverse populations, continued lack of representation persists. Moreover we still hear the mantra of, "it's not that we don't believe in or support diversity, we don't know where to find them". In addition, deans and department heads quote the statistics reminding us of the small numbers while majority faculty lament about the impossibility of inducing them to come to our campus even when they are sought after. Numerous studies disclose reasons for underrepresentation of these faculty members in the pipeline and throughout all phases of the recruitment and selection process. In an effort to counteract such studies and to diversify its faculty workforce, aggressive moves at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are raising the bar for universities nationwide. One move, which is the focus of this article, is RIT's Annual "Future Faculty Career Exploration Program." This unique program furthers RIT's diversity efforts by bringing students nearing the end of their doctoral studies and postdoctoral assignments to Rochester to receive the "RIT treatment." Since the program's inception in October of 2003, more than 150 scholars have been invited to attend the annual program. The program has become so widely acclaimed that 185 and 235 applications were received in the past two years, respectively, to fill 27-30 allocated slots. This level of response clearly demonstrates the interest of young scholars and their desire to visit the academy for the value add this program brings to their professional and career development. A review of this best practice and lessons learned will be shared.
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