Whenever colleges consider how to become more diverse and inclusive, the same assumptions, ideas, and debates tend to come up. College leaders may blame a lack of faculty diversity on the Ph.D. pipeline. They often propose or require diversity training to try to improve the campus climate. They create task forces to make recommendations for institutional change. And they fret that a bold approach to increasing racial diversity could invite legal scrutiny.

Those four usual suspects prompt questions, detailed below, that don’t have simple answers. Still, thinking through the complexities is essential to moving forward with a strategy to diversify. This free report from the Chronicle of Higher Education addresses four key questions and shows how four different institutions are making racial equity a priority.