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“If we don’t look broadly and diversely, we are missing the best of the next generation,” she says.
But all that has changed. As multi-year searches are finalized, Smith says he expects a slight growth in the coming year. But next year’s size may well be the ceiling—Smith has projected a shrinking of the faculty as departures outpace the number of...
But five years later, even through a decade of expansion, the proportions of women and minorities in the faculty as compared with their white male colleagues have changed only slightly. Today, a quarter of the University faculty are women and 17 percent are minorities, according to the 2009 annual report...
Klemperer says that in the past the University has “erred on the side of hiring people who are past their creative period.”
While only 12 percent of the natural science senior faculty Hokestra entered is comprised of women, her ascension to the top of the tenure ladder shows that female academics—once marginalized—are now beginning to balance the gender skew.