Frank Dobbin

Frank Dobbin

Harvard University

Frank Dobbin is the Henry Ford II professor of the social sciences in the department of sociology at Harvard University. He is co-author (with Alexandra Kalev) of Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t (Harvard University Press, 2022).

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Campus talks: getting back to the basics of equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education

Two US experts in EDI discuss how universities can continue to support and advance equality of opportunity in the face of mounting challenges to ‘diversity’ work

Paulette Granberry Russell, Frank Dobbin

National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, Harvard University

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The challenge of building a diverse faculty in a world that has turned on diversity

In improving recruitment and retention of faculty from under-represented groups, universities can learn strategies from the corporate world – and let go of contentious remedies that do not work

Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev

Harvard University, Tel Aviv University