Efforts To Recruit More Diverse Faculties In Business School Are Failing
Despite the increasing diversity among America’s college students, business school professors remain overwhelmingly white.
In U.S. business schools, Black and Hispanic individuals make up 23.2% of students, yet only 6.7% of the faculty.
As a researcher with a long-standing interest in the reasons business schools lack diverse faculty, I – along with marketing professor Sonja Martin Poole – set out to examine how business schools select their faculty. We did this by talking to 21 Black and Hispanic professors who have served on search committees at business schools throughout the U.S. We discovered four major reasons professors of color often get screened out of the process.
1. Race is unmentionable
Search committees rarely have open conversations about race as they search to diversify ...