Nation's Largest Gathering of Minority Ph.D. Students, Graduates to Focus on Severe College Faculty Shortage

The Compact for Faculty Diversity’s 14th Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring will be held October 25-28 at the Marriott Crystal Gateway and adjoining hotels in Arlington, Virginia.

The event, which is sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board and several partner organizations, will feature nationally prominent speakers on higher education and faculty diversity, hundreds of workshops for aspiring and current college faculty members, networking and job interviewing opportunities for doctoral students, and much more.

The SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program has provided assistance to more than 700 doctoral students since its creation in 1993. Students must gain admission to doctoral programs on their own merit to be eligible for the highly successful program, whose graduates are now employed in academic settings in 36 states.

When the SREB program began, there were very few minority faculty members in the 16-state SREB region, outside of historically black colleges and universities. Today, about 5 percent of the professors at public four-year colleges in the United States are black, about 3 percent are Hispanic and less than 1 percent are American Indian — despite the fact that almost one-third of America’s college students are people of color.