Univ. unveils diversity plan
Administration aims to recruit women and minority faculty members
Yale officials announced a new faculty diversity initiative Monday, pledging to increase the University's number of minority faculty members by 34 percent in seven years.
The plan, which also aims to increase female faculty by 20 percent during the same period, focuses on hiring practices but also includes proposals to improve graduate school diversity, faculty mentoring and work-life programs. While some professors and graduate students said they are enthusiastic about the initiative's goals and the likelihood that a centralized diversity effort will be more effective than...
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