DiversityInc - October 2008

percentage points) across race/ ethnicity and gender. Cornell’s rate was 92 percent for whites, 90 percent for Blacks, 93 percent for Asians, 89 percent for Latinos and 94 percent for women. Cornell ties executive compensation to diversity and has a head of diversity reporting to the provost. The university has strong employee-

Kean University

Asian and 38 percent women. The head of diversity reports directly to the president/CAO.

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Cornell University

resource groups for students, faculty members and staff members, and offers The Sharing Our World series, an opportunity for networking and programming for the university’s community of color, LGBT community, women, veterans, new hires and adoptive families.

The university has diversity surveys for faculty members and students and has made a strong philanthropic effort in underserved communities—Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership funds projects in the community and eight partner schools that have free and reduced lunches. The partnership has created two health clinics in two schools. Duke is one of only six schools surveyed that requires Tier II (subcontractor) supplier diversity.

Duke University

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEWARK AND CAMDEN, N.J.: This very diverse university is 50 percent non-white: 11 percent Black, 9 percent Latino, 19 percent Asian, 0.25 percent American Indian and 10. 75 percent “other.” The total faculty is 23 percent non-white: 4 percent Black, 2. 5 percent Latino, 10 percent Asian, 0.5 percent

DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, N.C.: The university has strong work/life benefits for its faculty members, including stopping the tenure clock while on parental leave and alternative career tracks for those with family issues. Besides same-sex domestic-partner healthcare benefits, Duke’s nondiscrimination policy also includes sexual orientation and gender identity.

KEAN UNIVERSITY, UNION, N.J.: Forty-seven percent of the student population is non-white at this public school— 19 percent Black, 17 percent Latino, 6 percent Asian and 5 percent “other.” Kean University has strong career services for LGBT students and students with disabilities. The faculty is 25 percent non-white— 11 percent Black, 8 percent Latino, 6 percent Asian and 47 percent female.