Research Guides: Oral Health Equity: Diversity in Education & Workforce

ADEA Faculty Diversity Toolkit

ADEA Faculty Diversity Toolkit
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The ADEA Faculty Diversity Toolkit provides an overview of best practices, strategies and model programs that postsecondary institutions have used to improve the recruitment and retention of historically underrepresented and marginalized faculty.

The Toolkit is also meant to assist dental schools and allied programs in evaluating and designing programs to improve their faculty diversity recruitment and retention efforts.
ADEA Faculty Diversity Toolkit: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Dental Education

ADEA Report: Slow to Change: HURE Groups in Dental Education, March 2022
HURE = historically underrepresented racial and ethnic (HURE) graduates

Diversity in the dental profession and dental education has been a point of discussion for a number of years, and yet despite efforts to bring about change, change has been slow. This report appraises who is HURE in dental education, the applicant and graduate trends of HURE groups and issues impacting HURE in the pathway to dentistry. The report provides suggested strategies to increase HURE in higher education and thus, dental education with examples of model programs that have been successful in engaging HURE students in preparation and successful matriculation into dental programs.

ADEA: 2018-19 Dental School Faculty in the United States
Includes number of full-time and part-time dental school faculty by race and ethnicity in the 2018-2019 academic year.
ADA: The dentist workforce
Current and future supply of dentists and shifting demographics within the workforce. Includes infographics on racial and ethnic statistics for dentist workforce and dental students in the U.S.