Multiple Perspectives on a Failed Attempt at Diversity

Authors

Fay Akindes, Assistant Professor of Communication, Co-Director of Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Michele Gee Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management, School of Business and Technology, Co¬Director, Center for International Studies, Co-Director, New Directions Community Economic Development Program, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Farida Khan, Associate Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Mary Kay Schleiter Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of Sociology-Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Date of this Version

October 2001

Abstract

Four faculty members from diverse disciplines and backgrounds use a polyvocal method of analysis to discuss a set of patterns which insure the failure of a campus to retain most faculty and teaching academic staff of color for more than a few years.