B-School Classes Are Becoming More Diverse. The Faculty, Not So Much
Despite years of trying to mint more minority professors, MBA programs remain stubbornly resistant to change.
Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business has zero Black faculty.
Photographer: Mindaugas Dulinskas/Getty ImagesBusiness schools can’t stop talking about diversity these days. Every institution, it seems, has issued thoughtful statements or disclosed ambitious plans around advancing racial equity. But when asked to disclose the diversity of their professors, an uncomfortable silence ensues.
Some simply don’t know. Others might know, but won’t say. A few skew the results by including visiting staff or lecturers in addition to the tenured and tenure-track faculty that really matter. When the numbers are available, they’re abysmal. Which raises the question: How can American B-schools prepare an increasingly diverse student body to succeed in an increasingly multicultural society with teachers who are anything but?