The Supreme Court has established that diversity is a compelling state interest with regard to student body diversity in the higher education context, namely medical school and law school. Many educators and higher education organizations view racial and ethnic diversity among faculty as an important educational objective. Faculty diversity is also considered critical to achieving student body diversity, which the Court has held to be a compelling state interest. However, the Court has neither articulated whether a diverse faculty is a compelling state interest, nor discussed what affirmative action policies are sufficiently narrowly tailored to achieve the diversity. Legal and policy-based arguments are made with respect to race as a factor in faculty hiring decisions. Also, arguments for university efforts to foster faculty diversification and consider race as a factor in employment are made.