Most predominantly white colleges have struggled for decades to increase the racial diversity of their faculty members. Over all, people of color make up just over one-fifth of the professoriate, compared with nearly half of undergraduates.

But the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is on its way to becoming a success story. From 2015 to 2020, the number of Black faculty members there nearly doubled, the number of Hispanic faculty members rose about 50 percent, and the number of Asian faculty members increased by about 25 percent. As a whole, the share of white professors declined to 72 percent from 81 percent.

UNC-Greensboro is among more than a dozen institutions featured in a new Chronicle report that examines how to increase the racial diversity of faculty, staff, leadership, and governing boards.