Minorities and women tend to do this more on the basis of individual contributions to the furtherance of the community as a whole. The issue is not about lowering standards, or creating a two-class system . It s about identifying all of the things that really matter in the work of the university and developing ways to assess and make decisions about quality and productivity. It s about valuing, applying, assessing and rewarding what women and minorities bring to the entire mission of the unit. If the goal is to help them become like us in order to be successful, then we lose the value of a multifaceted world view.
Research supports the value of diversity in the success rates of minority students.
Recognize that scholars do many important kinds of work as part of a faculty and over a career. Evaluate and reward faculty on what they are asked or encouraged to do. Consider all of the obligations of the unit and give them value. Common qualitative standards of scholarship have been proposed that would apply to most, even all, of the work that scholars do.