Does Hiring Diversity Officers Increase University Diversity?
A new study in the Southern Economic Journal suggests that university efforts to enhance diversity by hiring DEI executives to oversee diversification efforts were largely ineffective. Specifically the study, “The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring,” finds that hiring CDOs had no effect on faculty diversity.
The abstract reads:
Racial diversity among faculty, students, and administrators is increasing at universities in the United States. These changes have been uneven, with growth in underrepresented students exceeding that of faculty diversity. To address these and other inequities, a growing number of universities have established an executive-level chief diversity offi
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