Tailor-made: Meeting the unique needs of women of color STEM-SBS faculty through mentoring

Women of Color faculty have some of the worst outcomes of all other faculty in terms of attainment of tenure and promotion. They are much more likely than others to leave a university, file suits for discrimination and face hostile work environments and classrooms, and leave academe. It is to a university's and society's benefit to retain talented women of color and remedy these negative outcomes. This paper seeks to address the unique concerns and issues of Women of Color through the custom tailoring of mentoring programs based upon qualitative data analysis. Best practices and strategies will also be explored.