The report concludes that, while minority enrollments have recovered from a drop after 1998, they’ve now stalled or declined across the board.
This summer, the Community Colleges of Spokane spent about $10,000 advertising faculty openings in the Seattle and Tacoma area, in the hopes of attracting more diverse candidates, Livingston says. But it didn’t produce an increase in the schools’ minority faculty.
One reason may be that Spokane remains a largely White community,
he says, noting, “Diversity begets more diversity.”
— Associated Press
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