Despite stated commitments to diversity, predominantly White academic institutions still have not increased racial diversity among their faculty. In this article Robin DiAngelo and Özlem Sensoy focus on one entry point for doing so—the faculty hiring process. They analyze a typical faculty hiring scenario and identify the most common practices that block the hiring of diverse faculty and protect Whiteness and offer constructive alternative practices to guide hiring committees in their work to realize the institution's commitment to diversity.

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As educators who work with preservice teachers on critical multicultural education, we often struggle with our students' desire for us to provide them with the how-to's of multicultural education-a kind of "answer list." In this paper, we share the analogies we have developed and found effective in explaining to our students why the list that they imagine not only doesn't guarantee success, but could actually result in undermining core principles of critical multicultural education.

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