title: Diversity in nursing faculty hinges on diversity in nursing students.
abstract: In this chapter, I attempted to explicate and highlight some of the interrelationships which exist in higher education between white male and female faculty members from a minority perspective. I discussed the effect of attitudes on the success of minority students and faculty in light of projected demographic changes. I hope that white female faculty members will become more cognizant of how negative attitudes impact upon both their own performance in higher education and also how the inculcation of these attitudes can be transferred to minority faculty members with devastating results. Change is difficult in all spheres of life, but without some modicum of change, life will go on as usual. Minority faculty members and students deserve at the very least a fair chance in the game we call higher education.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tucker-Allen
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D003469:Culture; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D014481:United States; D014930:Women