More Minority Scholars in Liberal Arts Schools

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This post discusses the need to diversify college faculty at these postsecondary institutions. Reading this article, I began to draw the connection to this campus and other institutions that I have visited.  It makes one wonder if there are any initiatives put into place that helps gain some type of equal faculty body. 

I thought it was interesting, hope it's thought provoking for you all too. Enjoy.

The article can be found here:

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Dean-Seeks-Ways-to-Recruit/137641/

One initiative that article used can be found here:

http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/440374/original/c3_strategy.pdf

Shirley M. Collado, 41, dean of the college, chief diversity officer, and an associate professor of psychology at Middlebury College, has been working to diversify the faculty at the institution and help other liberal-arts colleges do the same. Here's her account of that effort, as told to Audrey Williams June.