Abstract:
Department heads and program leaders in agricultural education were surveyed using a Web-based questionnaire to determine the extent to which departments and faculty were addressing issues of diversity in their programs and in the preparation of new teaching faculty. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data. The results showed limited numbers of current and new faculty are being prepared to work in diverse situations and address diversity issues. Faculty engagement in diversity workshops and seminars was limited. In the area of diversity-related research, much more is needed as less than a third of the universities reported their faculty members are engaged in such research. However, 75% of university agricultural education programs encouraged diversity-related statements in correspondences, publications, and when discussing teacher education topics.
Keywords:
faculty, diversity
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