by Shabreena Danz Lopez
At COACHE, we understand that many things – from culture to leadership to funding – can have a direct and potent impact on the ability to recruit, retain, and support faculty.
“When COACHE talks about faculty experience, it’s vital to recognize the importance of studying different groups and types of institutions for their unique perspectives,” says Todd Benson, executive director and principal investigator at COACHE. That’s one of the reasons why COACHE recently undertook some targeted analysis on data from faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
HBCUs play a significant role in producing some of the nation's most talented graduates as well as in allowing Black students to enter a more inclusive higher education community1. HBCUs also have a higher percentage of Black faculty members who often serve as mentors for their students and less senior faculty members (56% compared to 5% Black or Hispanic faculty at primarily white institutions in according to the most often-cited research from 20012).
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