At Southern Illinois, “something’s working,” says Andy Brantley, chief executive officer of CUPA-HR.
Rice says he did not know why the university system seemed to be more successful at hiring minority men than women. Statistics from the university system’s annual report on women and minorities showed that since 2002, the number of minorities and women in the faculty had risen.
So have the numbers of minority and female students. In the fall of 2006, minorities made up 18.5 percent of the student body and women were 52 percent.
The only number to have dropped in the past four years was the number of women in executive and managerial jobs.
Rice says he expects improvement over the next few years in the top ranks because the university has increased the diversity of its faculty. Administrative jobs often become filled by faculty members. Rice says that in the past, SIUC has tended to look outside when there have been senior job openings. Now, the university will give more attention to hiring — and grooming — from within. He says officials are also doing more to identify talented faculty members and train them for leadership posts.
“I think things are changing here, internally,” Rice says.
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