The report comes at a time when universities nationwide are rethinking their efforts to increase faculty diversity.

Since universities have long prided themselves on being champions of tolerance and reform, one might expect them to have a better track record on faculty diversity.

Or what if U.S. News and World Report included faculty diversity as a factor in its influential rankings?

More provocative still might be a boycott by top-ranked high school athletes and students of the one university, within each major athletic conference, with the worst record in faculty diversity.

SEAS has also significantly increased faculty diversity in terms of both racial and ethnic background as well as country of origin.

The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates promoted student advising, innovations in undergraduate programs, and faculty diversity.

And forget about faculty diversity.

A group agitating for greater faculty diversity occupied the dean's office and sued the school for discrimination; Derrick Bell, a black law professor, resigned over the issue.

Mr. Obama's boldest moment came at a rally for faculty diversity, where he compared Professor Bell to Rosa Parks.

Instead of a student satisfaction survey, The Financial Times measures salaries of recent graduates as well as faculty diversity and publications.