Hours of talk and abundant financial and other resources have been devoted to diversity and inclusion on campus, but there is less-clear evidence that colleges and universities are checking to see how those initiatives are paying off.
Well-intentioned leaders believe they are doing enough by making diversity in recruitment part of the mission and establishing offices to promote inclusion, but according to Samuel Museus, a professor of education studies at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of a key report on measuring those efforts, they aren’t looking deeply enough at their effectiveness.