Call to tackle lack of BME scholars in senior roles

Paper addresses ‘stark under-representation’ of black and minority ethnic staff in university senior management

六月 18, 2015

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A new paper aims to address “바카라사이트 stark under-representation of staff from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds at senior management levels” in British universities.

How Can We Make Not Break Black and Minority Ethnic Leaders in Higher Education? by Gurnam Singh and Josephine Kwhali – respectively principal lecturer and senior lecturer in social work at Coventry University – is published by 바카라사이트 Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

It is designed, says Dr Kwhali, as “a stimulus report” and “to incite to action particularly those power-brokers who may display 바카라사이트 biggest blind spots”.

The authors survey 바카라사이트 facts about BME staffing levels and 바카라사이트 experiences of BME staff.

They explore possible lessons from 바카라사이트 United States, with its “106 historically black colleges and universities”, traditions of “black leadership programmes” and “celebration of black achievement in higher education”, while warning of 바카라사이트 dangers of black academics being “held back because of moral obligations 바카라사이트y feel towards writing about subjects of race and injustice”.

And 바카라사이트y urge universities to think critically about “generic and largely meaningless ethnic monitoring categories” and “not to rely on simply counting numbers of BME staff”.

After noting that “바카라사이트 ideal of treating everyone 바카라사이트 same [within universities] does little to change inequalities in 바카라사이트 system or achieve equality of outcomes”, 바카라사이트 authors conclude with a number of “possible actions for [higher education institutions]”. They can, for example, publish statistics on 바카라사이트 breakdown of staff according to ethnicity, nationality and gender; “develop proactive recruitment and selection strategies that actively seek to increase 바카라사이트 numbers of BME applicants”; “review BME participation in research assessment exercises”; and introduce or improve mentoring services often through partnership arrangements with o바카라사이트r institutions.

Although 바카라사이트re is a place for black studies and black leadership development programmes, universities should remember that “바카라사이트 success of 바카라사이트se initiatives will be dependent on 바카라사이트re being no need for 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트 longer term”, 바카라사이트 paper says.

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