The impact of chief diversity officers on diverse faculty hiring

Steven W. Bradley, James R. Garven, Wilson Law and James West

Southern Economic Journal, 2022, vol. 89, issue 1, 3-36

Abstract: Racial diversity among faculty, students, and administrators is increasing at universities in the United States. These changes have been uneven, with growth in underrepresented students exceeding that of faculty diversity. To address these and other inequities, a growing number of universities have established an executive‐level chief diversity officer (CDO). Our study offers a first empirical examination of this effort at selected 4‐year U.S. universities from 2001 to 2019 using unique data on the initial hiring date of a CDO and publicly available demographic data. We provide a comprehensive overview of demographic trends within our data and find confidence intervals around the estimated instantaneous average treatment effect for an executive‐level CDO on diverse hiring tightly contain zero. Estimated treatment effects are small and lack statistical significance within 4 years of a CDO position being established. We discuss other possible factors that explain trends toward higher diversity on campus and several possible constraints.

Date: 2022
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Working Paper: The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring (2018)
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