Four in ten faculty administrators said recruitment of minority faculty was at least a high priority. One surprising finding was that schools with the lowest percentage of minority students said their institutions had a higher commitment to minority recruitment. No doubt there are many good reasons beyond our control for the sparse minority population. Faculty of color are in great demand at all institutions nationally. Many CCCU schools are located in rural, dominantly white areas.
Most schools have ties to denominations that are historically white.
In spite of those obstacles, some schools are doing well at minority recruitment. Successful schools tended to stay successful. The schools that had a high percentage of minority students in one sample tended to in other samples, and those with more minority faculty also tended to have more minority students. Recruitment of minorities seems to be related to increased tension on campus. In 1995 report findings indicated that faculty at institutions with a relatively large minority population were less likely than others to say they were satisfied with the quality of their students, less likely to say it was very important or essential to them personally to promote racial understanding, and less likely to say they had attended a racial or cultural awareness workshop in the last two years.