Competition for highly qualified African American faculty members among elite universities in the United States remains keen. Two of the most successful research universities at recruiting African American faculty members are located in the Southeast. Employing a conceptual framework grounded in organizational culture and climate literature, in this qualitative study the authors identified sets of tangible, intangible, and non-work-related factors that influenced the decisions of 12 African American faculty members in several disciplines to accept positions at an elite private research university in the Southeast. Study participants identified other factors not included in the original conceptual framework that also played significant roles in their decisions to accept positions at this university. Understanding such factors may assist other elite research universities in developing recruiting strategies to compete more effectively for African American faculty members. . He is a liberal arts teacher and theorist engaged in issues of multiculturalism and the college curriculum. Through both research and teaching, he combines an emphasis on Black studies and women's studies on one hand with Western classics on the other, integrating literary and cultural materials drawn from one domain with those of the other.

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