Supporting Women and Minority Faculty.

By JoAnn Moody departmental practices can help women and minority faculty thrive and make the greatest possible contribution to the academic enterprise. Several recent books have explored what is wrong with the current way of doing business.1 In this article, I outline steps to bring U.S. minority and European American women faculty at both the junior and the senior levels closer to full citizenship on U.S. campuses. In addition, I suggest how to coach senior faculty to recognize and then rise above cognitive mistakes they often make unwittingly. Examples of such errors include elitism that blinds one to quality outside one's own circle, the longing to clone, the stereotypical assumption that only European American men possess professional competence above Jo Ann Moody is a national diversity consultant and author of Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions, forthcoming in January 2004 from Routledge. Her Web address is DiversityOnCampus.com, and her e-mail address is moody@4iversityoncampus.com.