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Want More Diverse Faculty Applicant Pool? Conside Search Committee

November 5, 2024
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Welcome to Race on Campus. Many institutions want to to improve faculty diversity. Getting to that goal is tricky. That’s why Christiane Spitzmueller, a psychology professor at the University of Houston, and her colleagues studied faculty searches at the university to identify what exactly helped to improve the diversity of the applicant pool. Our Vimal Patel interviewed her about what she found.

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The current research was supported with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. NSF ADVANCE IT Grant #1409928 and NSF EHR research grant #2100034 to the University of Houston, PI: Madera, J.; NSF Racial Equity in STEM Education Grant #2411941 to the University of Merced, PI: Spitzmueller, C. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.