Diversity

Bertin M. Louis Jr., who has chaired and served on numerous search committees, offers four helpful tips.

Imagine, writes Lisa Reyes Mason, if more of us in academe publicly shared our research expertise to help address crucial social issues. What impact could we collectively have? How could lives change?

Unspoken rules and vague expectations contribute to holding down and pushing out scholars who have been historically marginalized in the academy, Kamden K. Strunk argues.

When Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt asked a large group of underrepresented faculty members why they left their higher education institutions, they told her the real reasons for their departures -- those that climate surveys don't capture.

For poor students of color, college contributes to the very inequality people have been taught to believe it erases, argues Blaque Robinson.

We should hold each other and ourselves accountable for the oppression we perpetrate, argues Jennifer M. Gómez.

Dada Docot provides advice for effectively preparing ahead of time.

Challenging interpersonal and systemic transphobia requires context-specific interventions, writes Derek P. Siegel.