In 2021, APA's Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA) and the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP) collaborated to form a task force to examine the issues facing faculty of color within psychological science.
A major goal of the report is to provide recommendations for best practices for the promotion and tenure process for faculty of color that aspire to foster meaningful systemic change across the psychological sciences. This report seeks to educate college and university administrators (i.e., psychology department chairs, chairs of promotion and tenure committees, external evaluators, deans, and chief academic officers) about the matter to begin creating systemic change. To that end, the report contains an action letter that departmental review committees can include with requests to outside reviewers for external evaluations of candidates being considered for promotion and tenure.