EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING MINORITY FACULTY RECRUITMENT

Two‐year colleges reportedly have enrolled a disproportionately large number of minority students, but minority representation among full‐time faculty members in these colleges is low. In this study institutional data on the numbers of minority full‐time 2‐year college faculty are provided, and the type of strategies presently being used by 2‐year institutions to recruit minority faculty members are discussed in detail. Strategies that are found to be particularly successful in facilitating the recruitment of minority faculty include hiring minorities to serve as chief academic administrators, hiring minority faculty for ethnic studies departments, having minorities serve on the board of trustees, recruiting minorities in private industry to teach part‐time, and canceling positions without minority applicants.