Faculty Retention Strategy
Multi-year developmental infrastructure that gives recruited scholars reasons — and conditions — to stay.
For Universities
Protect and extend your investment in Black faculty recruitment.
Recruitment is the beginning of the institutional commitment, not its completion. The Institute provides the multi-year infrastructure that turns hiring into retention, research success, advancement, and leadership.
Institutional Strategy
Five strategies, one partnership
Research Capacity Strategy
Grant strategy, funding pipelines, and research-team development that translate hiring into competitive research programs.
Leadership Development Strategy
Supervision, mentoring, and institutional leadership capacity that builds toward centres, laboratories, and academic administration.
Tenure & Promotion Strategy
Structured preparation for reviews, tenure, and promotion — from first-year expectations to Full Professor.
Institutional Effectiveness Strategy
Cohort-level insight into the conditions shaping faculty success, so systems improve alongside scholars.
What institutions can expect to strengthen
Measurable potential outcomes across research, career, leadership, experience, and institutional conditions.
- Stronger faculty retention
- Greater tenure readiness
- More competitive grant activity
- Stronger research teams
- Improved faculty leadership
- Greater scholarly visibility
- Earlier identification of institutional barriers
- Stronger mentoring and sponsorship
- Sustainable Black faculty networks
- Pipeline toward Full Professor
- Pipeline toward academic and research leadership
Institutional Learning & Accountability
Faculty development cannot solve structural problems alone.
Each year, participating institutions receive the Black Faculty Institutional Conditions & Retention Brief — anonymized, cohort-level insight into the conditions shaping faculty success.
- Research support
- Workload
- Mentoring
- Sponsorship
- Promotion clarity
- Department culture
- Belonging
- Campus politics
- Leadership opportunities
Confidentiality is foundational. Individual participant coaching and experiences remain confidential. Institutions receive aggregated insights that can support organizational learning and improvement.
Evaluation is longitudinal — because academic careers develop over years, not workshops.
Begin the Partnership
Recruiting Black scholars is the beginning.
Let's build the conditions for them to remain, advance, lead, and flourish.