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This 8 page paper relates an ethnographic study. The purpose of this study is to integrate an ethnographic study as the basis for understanding why minorities and women are underrepresented in the faculty of this college. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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faculty of this college. In addressing this issue, it is necessary to identify the reasons why the university has relatively few minority faculty members by considering the reasons this
problem exists at other similar colleges and universities, and then applying these rationale to the college. By producing an ethnographic study of the existing faculty at the college and
studying their response to questions regarding the recruitment practices, ethnicity and gender of other faculty, and the response of the college to the issue of cultural diversity, it is possible
to determine a means of initiating change. The purpose of this study, then, is to determine, through the use of an ethnographic study, the reason why this specific college is
having a problem hiring and keeping minority faculty. Because of the nature of this study, it can also be suggested that a secondary purpose of this study is to
develop a tool by which a greater understanding of this problem can be derived to reduce the problem in the future. Problem
The current literature reflects a general belief that minorities are under represented in faculty positions in colleges and universities in the United States, though there are different rationales
for the under representation. The first rationale is that there are relatively few minority students in doctoral programs, and this impacts the job pool for hiring faculty.
Even the application of Affirmative Action directives in the past has not reduced the frustration of administrators, who continue to support efforts to higher minority faculty. The second rationale,
though, is based on the argument that 42 percent of conferred doctorates go to women and 17 percent to minorities, but there is a gap between these figures and those
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