Salary Survey Trends 2014–2015 · 13 Figure 2: Minority Professionals by Region in US ARL University Libraries, FY 2014–2015 Race/ Ethnicity Category New England Middle Atlantic East North Central West North Central South Atlantic East South Central West South Central Mountain Pacific Total %Black 25 75 72 21 126 22 25 8 27 401 31% Hispanic 17 50 37 9 44 8 36 22 43 266 21% Asian 71 106 83 22 86 14 45 17 149 593 46% American Indian/Alaskan Native 3 9 5 3 1 3 7 3 34 3% Minority Total 116 240 197 55 257 44 109 54 222 1294 100.0% Minority Percent 9.0% 18.5% 15.2% 4.3% 19.9% 3.4% 8.4% 4.2% 17.2% Nonminority Total 1013 1240 1300 503 1350 365 624 399 653 7447 100.0% Nonminority Percent 13.6% 16.7% 17.5% 6.8% 18.1% 4.9% 8.4% 5.4% 8.8% Regional Percent Total staff 12.9% 16.9% 17.1% 6.4% 18.4% 4.7% 8.4% 5.2% 10.0% Proportional Minority Representation -33.82% 10.78% -13.14% -36.76% 9.94% -30.61% 0.00% -22.22% 95.45% ARL recognizes the difficulties that the profession has in attracting a diverse workforce and continues to work actively in the development of workplace climates that embrace diversity. One way that ARL achieves this end is through the work of the ARL Diversity Program. The ARL Diversity Program through its Leadership and Career Development Program and the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce, emphasizes ARL’s and its members’ commitment to creating a diverse academic and research library community to better meet the new challenges of global competition and changing demographics. Further, the diversity program focuses on issues surrounding work relationships in libraries while considering the impact of diversity on library services, interactions with library users, and the development of collections. More information about the diversity program can be found at http://www.arl.org/leadership-recruitment/diversity-recruitment. ClimateQUAL® is an assessment initiative that focuses on some of the same issues. It is the statistics and assessment program’s tool that assesses organizational climate and diversity in libraries. ClimateQUAL helps libraries plumb the dimensions of climate and organizational culture important for a healthy organization in a library setting. The survey addresses climate issues such as diversity, teamwork, learning, and fairness, as well as current managerial practices, and staff attitudes and beliefs. Libraries use their survey data to improve their organizational climate and diversity culture for delivering superior services to the communities they serve. More information about ClimateQUAL can be found at http://www.climatequal.org.