"Cracking the Code": How Faculty Search Chairs Challenge or Reproduce Institutional Racism

• In Event: 66.042 - Organizational Administration, Faculty, and Institutional Change

Abstract

This roundtable proposal explores how institutional structure, and search committee member positionality impact the hiring of diverse faculty candidates. Using systems theory the structure of a public, predominantly White, Land-Grant institution is examined, along with the bureaucratic work environment that is engendered by the institution (Bess & Dee, 2008).

Authors

• Sarah Jeanne Dyer, University of Maine

• Leah Hakkola, University of Maine at Orono