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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

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Structuring Inclusion into Political Science Recruiting, Progression, and Engagement
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , January 2023 , pp. 118 - 122
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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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