Anti-racism structures in academic dentistry: Supporting underrepresented racially/ethnically diverse faculty.

Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to describe the racialized barriers to recruiting and retaining historically underrepresented racially/ethnically diverse (HURE) faculty at U.S. dental schools and the linkages of these barriers to structural racism to assist dental schools in eliminating these hurdles through an antiracism framework.

ADEA Faculty Diversity Toolkit: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Dental Education.

Population demographic shifts in the United States and Canada have led to an increasingly diverse postsecondary student population. However, the largely homogenous dental faculty in the United States and Canada does not reflect the rapidly changing student body and the diverse patient population academic dentistry has been called to serve. Therefore, recruitment and retention of diverse dental faculty in dental education must be a priority.