Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students

by Stephen Cole, Elinor G. Barber, Melissa Bolyard

In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial diversity of their student bodies. They have been less successful, however, in diversifying their faculties. This book identifies the ways in which minority students make occupational choices, what their attitudes are toward a career in academia, and why so few become college professors.

Working with a large sample of high-achieving minority students from a variety of institutions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009452
• ISBN13: 9780674009455
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"