Assessing Efforts and Policies Related to the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty at Accredited and Non-accredited Journalism and Mass Communication Programs

Abstract

Accredited and non-accredited journalism and mass communication programs participated in a nation-wide Web survey (45% completion rate) designed to assess minority faculty recruitment; retention structures, plans, or programs; promotion efforts and policies; and day care/child care support topics. Results indicate stark differences persist between accredited and non-accredited units regardless of state compositions and university size/composition. Recommendations orbit policy motions. More directives in efforts to increase, retain, and promote minority faculty should exist; various governing bodies should work together on establishing and helping enforce those directives to enhance faculty member diversity; and reward systems for minority faculty recruitment and retention efforts should be expanded.

Faculty of color in academe: What 20 years of literature tells us.

“…C. González, 2007a, 2007b; McLean, 2007; Skachkova, 2007; Urrieta & Méndez Benavídez, 2007; B. N. Williams & Williams, 2006), analysis of large data sets (Ashraf & Shabbir, 2006; Isaac & Boyer, 2007; Perna, 2003; Perna, Gerald, Baum, & Milem, 2007; Porter, 2007; Toutkoushian, Bellas, & Moore, 2007), and surveys and questionnaires (Hagedorn, Chi, Cepeda, & McLain, 2007; Holcomb-McCoy & Addison-Bradley, 2005; Stanley, 2007a, 2007b; Subervi & Cantrell, 2007; Umbach, 2006). Also, historical research approaches (Weems, 2003) and narrative data analysis (Sámano, 2007; Stanley, 2006) were used during this period (although to a lesser degree).…”

Representation in the Leadership Demographics of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication From 2010 to 2022

“…Other scholars have presented empirical evidence of gender and racial discrepancies in AEJMC's membership, including Adams and Bodle (1995), Barrow (2004), Ross et al (2007), Rush et al (2004), Stephens (2003), and Subervi and Cantrell (2007). Barrow (2004) examined the role of minority women in AEJMC, noting that of the AEJ membership of 665 in 1968, only eight were minorities (1.4%).…”