Daryl G. Smith's research interests center on diversity in higher education, evaluation and organizational change, college governance issues, women in academe, institutional research, student affairs, and classroom teaching.
Her most recent book is Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making it Work. Recent studies include research on faculty hiring ("Interrupting the Usual: Successful Strategies for Diversifying the Faculty," Journal of Higher Education), and retrospective study of standardized tests, ("The Impending Loss of Talent: An Exploratory Study Challenging Assumptions about Testing and Merit"). Smith has also co-authored To Form a More Perfect Union, A Diversity Research Agenda, and Assessing Diversity on College and University Campuses. http://communityrelations.lbcc.edu/Loop/100312/Walk%20the%20Talk%20broch...