From The Chronicle of Higher Education, a series of articles on diversity in academia, including an essay on how the professoriate is increasingly diverse, but that didn't happen by accident; some evangelical professors say they are discriminated against, but others ask whether that is because of faith — or politics; gay professors face less discrimination, but many still fight for benefits; fewer than 30 black women hold full-time jobs in philosophy departments, but the number has inched up in recent years; the perspectives of single academics need to be brought more directly into teaching and scholarship; hiring foreign scholars in the name of diversity does little to help the education of minority youth in the United States; to infer anything about a person's character or sensibility on the basis of physical racial characteristics is legally suspect—yet that is what "diversity hiring" practices require us to do; elite colleges must do more to help low-income students succeed; and the college-guide market has exploded, with books and rankings that cater to students of all ethnic origins, faiths, and interests.
