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What Factors Hold Back the Careers of Women and Faculty of Color? Columbia U. Went Looking for Answers

October 25, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

The Chronicler of Higher Education

By Audrey Williams June

October 18, 2018

Last year Columbia University announced that it would commit $100 million over the next five years to recruiting and supporting the careers of underrepresented minority faculty — on top of the $85 million it had spent since 2005. Despite Columbia’s hefty financial commitment, the pace of faculty diversity on the Ivy League campus has been stubbornly slow. The university has also studied the progress of women through the academic pipeline.

A new report, released by Columbia on Thursday, provides a detailed picture of the factors that have played a role in making the recruitment and retention of minority and female faculty such a challenge for the institution.

Read the full article here.

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