Attracting and retaining diverse faculty to our campuses are significant challenges for higher education. Recruitment and retention are often left to individual departments ill-equipped to respond to either the institutional needs for diversity or the individual needs of isolated, diverse faculty. Consortia offer opportunities to maximize professional development of search committees and departments, create cross-institutional communities for diverse faculty, and collaborate on policies that support the changing American professoriate.

Our presenters, Robbin Chapman (Wellesley College, Higher Education Recruitment Consortium), Linda Mason (Purdue University, Big Ten Academic Alliance, Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) and Lisa Perfetti (Whitman College, Northwest Five Consortium) offered consortial models for diversifying the professoriate. The audience was introduced to the ways consortia can address these issues, to sample initiatives and how consortia can assess the impact of such programs, and to the steps that ensure their sustainability.

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