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Let’s Retire the Term “Fit”: Strategies to Improve Faculty Heterogeneity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Athena M. King*
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Old Dominion University, USA

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Structuring Inclusion into Political Science Recruiting, Progression, and Engagement
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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