Recruiting teachers of color is hard because the units in universities that are charged specifically for marketing and recruitment aren’t positioned and staffed to recruit African Americans and Latinos. Many colleges still have a sole multicultural recruiter.
I still love seeing names of units change from minority affairs to diversity or multicultural affairs as the composition of majority changes. Particularly for regional colleges and universities situated in urban areas, the word minority is most often used incorrectly. Whites are the minority in places like New Orleans, Detroit and Atlanta.
And still, many admissions offices are networked to schools and families outside of their immediate surroundings. Colleges and universities’ infrastructure aren’t positioned to the neighborhoods and schools where the untapped teacher talent resides.