Faculty Issues: The Impact on Minorities

Blackwell, James E.

doi:10.1353/rhe.1988.0013

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“…Blackwell (1988Blackwell ( , 1989) encouraged institutions to actively recruit, hire, and retain minority faculty members so a pool of qualified minority applicants will be available for mid-and upper-level administrative positions. The existing shortage of minority faculty professionals will translate into a future lack of minority deans.…”

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The Effects of Job Attributes, Institutional Mission Emphasis, and Institution Type on Perceptions of the Provost Position

Murrell

Hughey

2003

Educational Administration Quarterly

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Randomly selected deans (N = 456) employed at public institutions rated one of four provost position announcements varied by two variables: job attributes and institutionalmission. Independent variables were job attributes, institutional mission, and institution type; dependent variable was a rating of three items with Likert-type scales: likelihood of applying for provost job described, likelihood of accepting an interview for provost job described, and likelihood of accepting provost job described if offered. A 2 × 2 × 3 ANOVA (12 cells; n = 38) detected a main effect for institutional mission (F = 3.95; df = 1, 444; p < .05). Deans rated jobs emphasizing a research mission more favorably than those emphasizing a teaching mission. No other significant effects or interactions were found. Results support use of Rynes and Barber's (1990) Applicant Attraction Model to frame investigations concerning recruitment practice in higher education, specifically strategic selection of recruitment message content for vacant provost positions.At all levels of the educational enterprise, recruitment of academic, instructional leaders remains a persistent challenge. As in elementary and secondary schools, the large number of higher educational faculty members and administrators hired during the 1950s and 1960s are rapidly approaching retirement age (Gilley, 1991). The traditional training and development pipeline for preparation of the next generation of faculty professionals and administration, however, has not produced enough quality individuals to fill all of the anticipated vacancies at the nation's 4-year colleges and universities (Carr, 1999). The successors to these retiring personnel will be charged with maintaining and directing the higher education enterprise for the next several 533

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The Effects of Job Attributes, Institutional Mission Emphasis, and Institution Type on Perceptions of the Provost Position

Murrell

Hughey

2003

Educational Administration Quarterly

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“…Even in the early and mid-1990s, fewer than a dozen black PhDs graduated annually in the fields of physics/astronomy, geoscience, mathematics, and most branches of engineering. Of the 2,092 PhDs awarded in computer science throughout the 1980s, African Americans earned only 14, less than one percent.2 These figures provide sobering support for the argument that African Americans' underrepresentation on college faculties is foremost a problem of labor supply (Blackwell, 1988;Carter & Wilson, 1991;Thomas, 1992).…”

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External Labor Markets and the Distribution of Black Scientists and Engineers in Academia

Kulis¹,

Shaw²,

Chong³

2000

The Journal of Higher Education

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“…This bears on the likely success of various suggested remedies to improve the representation and work conditions of black faculty members. Many proposals focus on redressing problems of supply, calling for more pre-and postdoctoral financial support for minority students (Blackwell, 1988); consortia of predominantly black with predominantly white institutions (Haggin, 1989); early identification and recruitment of doctoral students (Wilson, 1987); and recruitment from the faculty of black colleges and attendees at conferences of black educators (Harris, 1989). With more than twice as many institutions as there are black sociologists to staff them, problems of supply will continue to dominate issues of black faculty representation.…”

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The political economy of incorporation: Black sociologists in academia

Kulis

1992

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This study examines institutional variations in the recruitment of black sociologists in academia and in racial allocations of academic rank. It is designed to identify aspects of the academy that pose barriers to equal participation for black sociologists and to suggest institutional structures and environments that are most likely to equitably incorporate them. Drawing on a 1984 national survey of sociology departments (N = 230), the study examines both the absolute and proportional representation of black sociologists at the departmental level, as well as issues of tokenism and equality in the assignment of academic rank among racially integrated departmental faculties. Results indicate that the factors that promote better black faculty representation do not always provide African-Americans with other black colleagues, with substantial numerical influence within the department, or with equality in academic rank. Those colleges and universities that are most likely to have black sociologists are large, have sizable black student populations, and are located in metropolitan areas or the South. Racial equality in academic rank is most closely associated with dependence on government revenues.

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Faculty Issues: The Impact on Minorities

Cited by 66 publications

References 22 publications

The Effects of Job Attributes, Institutional Mission Emphasis, and Institution Type on Perceptions of the Provost Position

The Effects of Job Attributes, Institutional Mission Emphasis, and Institution Type on Perceptions of the Provost Position

External Labor Markets and the Distribution of Black Scientists and Engineers in Academia

The political economy of incorporation: Black sociologists in academia

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