Doctors, researchers push academia’s ivory tower to start rewarding diversity work in promotion decisions
Universities and academic hospitals have vowed to diversify their ranks after a year of reckoning over racial injustice. Among the remedies faculty are pushing: rewarding diversity and inclusion efforts in promotion decisions.
From residencies or postdocs up through different levels of professorship, advancing in academia amounts to climbing a structured career ladder; faculty reach new rungs by winning grants, publishing in top journals, and presenting at conferences. It’s a high-pressure scramble to get tenure.
