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SUMMARY:Which Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Coll
 eges and Universities - Professor Frank Dobbin - Henry Ford II Professor o
 f the Social Sciences at Harvard
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CONTACT:Ben Karniely
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n \nHistorically white\, and male\, colleges and uni
 versities in the U.S. began to diversify their undergraduate bodies in the
  1960s and have made considerable progress since then.  But progress on fa
 culty diversity has stalled.  That has wide-ranging implications for every
 thing from university completion rates for students of color to the presen
 ce of new voices in medical research.  Universities deserve much of the bl
 ame\, for they implemented programs to diversify the faculty that their ow
 n social scientists had long ago proven to be ineffective.  An analysis of
  the efficacy of diversity programs at 600 schools over 20 years sheds lig
 ht on how universities can build faculties that look more like their stude
 nts\, and the wider society\, in terms of gender\, race\, and ethnicity.\n
  \nBio:\n \nFrank Dobbin is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
  at Harvard.  He holds a B.A. from Oberlin\nCollege and a Ph.D. from Stanf
 ord University in sociology.  His Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton U
 . Press 2009) shows how HR managers and activists defined what it meant to
  discriminate in the eyes of the law\, broadening the definition over time
 . His Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't with Alexandra Kal
 ev (Harvard U. Press [Belknap] 2022) looks at the effectiveness of dozens 
 of different diversity programs\, in over 800 companies across more than 3
 0 years\, to answer the questions: Which programs help\, which hurt\, and 
 how can harmful programs be improved?  Dobbin and Kalev are now investigat
 ing university programs designed to promote faculty diversity\, using simi
 lar methods to sort out which are most effective.  Dobbin has held fellows
 hips from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Russell Sage Foundation\, the Ce
 nter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, the Radcliffe Institu
 te\, the Safra Center for Ethics\, and the Netherlands Institute for Advan
 ced Study.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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