When Faculty of Color Feel Isolated, Consortia Expand Their Networks

When Alicia Moore arrived at Southwestern University in 2001, only one of the 106 full-time faculty members at the entire central Texas college was African American like her. Luckily, she was in the same department, and she became a mentor to Moore, helping her navigate the waters of academe at a small liberal-arts institution where most of the students, and most of the faculty members, are white.