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Researchers Sonya A. Grier and Sonja Martin Poole examined how business schools select their faculty.
They found that to avoid the discomfort of discussing race, it s not mentioned during the selection process.
Selection committees also lack a clear definition of diversity and believe themselves to be already diverse.
Despite the increasing diversity among America s college students, business school professors remain overwhelmingly white.
In US business schools, Black and Hispanic individuals make up 23.2% of students, yet only 6.7% of the faculty.
As a researcher with a long-standing interest in the reasons business schools lack diverse faculty, I along with marketing professor Sonja Martin Poole set out to examine how business schools select their faculty. We did this by talking to 21 Black and Hispanic professors who have served on search committees at business schools throughout the US. We discovered four majo