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This dissertation addresses the gap by examining what contributes to the underrepresentation of racialized faculty and administrators in Ontario colleges. The study leans on the cross-case analysis of three cases comprised of Ontario publicly funded colleges. Fifteen senior leaders (vice-presidents, deans, directors) who are hiring decision makers for faculty and administrators were interviewed. A conceptual framework linking white supremacy to one of its tools, systemic racism (structural, institutional, and individual racism), along with Critical Race Theory and Whiteness Theory, guides the analysis of the data. The findings exposed several barriers in Ontario colleges that affect the hiring of racialized faculty and administrators. Ubiquitous in all three colleges was proceduralism. Hiring policies and procedures and the Faculty Collective Agreement presented as neutral and bias-free are operationalized without critique impact who is in and who is out (who gets hired) and reproduce whiteness in faculty and administration bodies. Furthermore, Culture-fit; meritocracy; scientific racism; implicit bias; the trope of the missing pool of racialized faculty and administrator; and leadership lack of equity and anti-racism knowledge surfaced as blocks to the racial diversification of faculty and administrators. The study presents several recommendations from the researcher and college leaders to advance the hiring racialized faculty and administrators. 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This dissertation addresses the gap by examining what contributes to the underrepresentation of racialized faculty and administrators in Ontario colleges. The study leans on the cross-case analysis of three cases comprised of Ontario publicly funded colleges. Fifteen senior leaders (vice-presidents, deans, directors) who are hiring decision makers for faculty and administrators were interviewed. A conceptual framework linking white supremacy to one of its tools, systemic racism (structural, institutional, and individual racism), along with Critical Race Theory and Whiteness Theory, guides the analysis of the data. The findings exposed several barriers in Ontario colleges that affect the hiring of racialized faculty and administrators. Ubiquitous in all three colleges was proceduralism. Hiring policies and procedures and the Faculty Collective Agreement presented as neutral and bias-free are operationalized without critique impact who is in and who is out (who gets hired) and reproduce whiteness in faculty and administration bodies. Furthermore, Culture-fit; meritocracy; scientific racism; implicit bias; the trope of the missing pool of racialized faculty and administrator; and leadership lack of equity and anti-racism knowledge surfaced as blocks to the racial diversification of faculty and administrators. The study presents several recommendations from the researcher and college leaders to advance the hiring racialized faculty and administrators. 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