Would-be tenured professors enter academia with dewy-eyed excitement envisioning their idealized career as thought-leaders and knowledge transferers. Yet, for some underrepresented minority faculty that golden ticket has proven ever elusive. This is particularly true for Indigenous scholars who currently make up approximately 1% of full-time US faculty. Administrators and faculty leaders should therefore re-consider existing policies to determine if they create systemic barriers to Indigenous and minority faculty success. If we are ever going to end the underrepresentation of Indigenous faculty, changes need to me made at an institutional level.

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