INTENTIONALITY MATTERS.

BEST practices; EMPLOYEE retention; DIVERSITY in the workplace; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; COLLEGE administrators; COLLEGE teachers; HIGHER education

The article focuses on best practices that would help higher education leaders to build and retain a diverse faculty. Topics discussed include the impact of the pandemic on how higher education institutions handle faculty recruitment, the creation of a mass of minority scholars and cultivation of communities of care, the ability to conduct interviews of applicants via Zoom, and a meeting of higher education leaders with faculty search committees during the search.