Thank you, everyone, for supporting this petition. Please continue to share and encourage your contacts to sign. We are close to 1,000 signatures. Sam Brunson's article, "Faculty Demographics at BYU," helps us to understand the urgency of these efforts and initiatives for equal representation in higher education. Brunson writes:

"Of the 1,042 faculty [at BYU-Provo] I looked at, 213 are women and 35 are faculty of color. (You can see my breakdown by department or school here.[fn1])

In other words, a fraction more than 20% of BYU’s faculty are women. (About 46% of full-time faculty nationwide are women.) And just over 3% (3.36% to be precise) are non-white and/or Latinx." 

He also notes:

"Because faculty of color don’t just magically appear. And their lack at BYU isn’t just because there aren’t enough people of color with Ph.D.s. It’s in part because of BYU’s hiring policies. I’m not privy to most of its hiring policies, so I don’t know all of the impediments. I do know, though, that by default, faculty is likely to hire faculty that went to their same schools, that share their values, and who look like them.[fn3]

And who looks like BYU faculty? Pretty much white men."

Thank you, Brunson, for bringing these issues to our attention, which help us to better understand the need for equal representation of Native Americans and diverse scholars at BYU.

Read more at https://bycommonconsent.com/2020/06/26/faculty-demographics-at-byu/#comment-426373