Do faculty members from other cultures interact freely with students as their majority colleagues do?

Title
Multiculturalism in education: Faculty experiences while working in a different cultural setting.
Rationale
In education, it is vital to promote multiculturalism and ensure that educators can work in any institution of their choice. Therefore, it is critical to understand the experiences of individuals who are the minority culture in their institutions (Borkett, 2018). Some of the issues that have been noticed to cause challenges in the education sector include ethnicity, racism, and xenophobia. Consequently, it is vital to understand the current status of the learning institutions in issues of integration. The faculty members from racial minorities may experience challenges that may hinder them from being effective. Some of these challenges may emanate from different areas, such as fellow faculty members and the students. In some cases, institutions have been noticed to shy away from hiring staff from some culture because of performance stereotypes (Borkett, 2018). The faculty members from other cultures may, therefore, be disadvantaged at their workplaces.
In some cases, the faculty members may experience challenges that may hinder them from interacting freely with their students and thus affect their performance (Kim et al., 2014). In most cases, the students may fail to interact effectively with such professors because of their perceptions and stereotypes. Underlying cultural beliefs may affect the relationship of the faculty members with their fellow faculty members and the students, thus preventing them from being effective in their duties. For instance, it has been noted that racial perceptions have had a significant effect on the performance of faculty members in institutions of higher learning (Craft, 2017). In the case of African American professor who is working in a predominantly white institution, the professor may experience challenges both in interacting effectively with the students as well as with fellow professors.
The cultural differences have also been noted to affect the performance of the faculty members directly (Beachum, 2020). For instance, an Indian professor who came from Asia may experience a challenge in issues such as communication that may affect their performance. An accent can prevent the professor from being effective in delivering content to the students. While the students may understand well what a lecturer with an accent is offering, the pronunciation may act as a block, preventing students from performing well (Beachum, 2020). A professor may also not understand particular issues such as social interaction tendencies, and this may hinder them from interacting freely with the students, especially outside the lecture room.
Research Questions
In this study, to understand the experiences of the faculty members who work in a culture different from theirs, the following questions will be used:
1. Do faculty members from other cultures interact freely with students as their majority colleagues do?
2. Do the faculty members from minority cultures feel appreciated and comfortable working in this environment?
3. How do students feel about faculty members from other cultures different from theirs?
Methodology
The study will utilize a qualitative approach in which the data collected will be descriptive. In this case, multiple items will be used to ensure that as much data as possible is collected to provide an adequate understanding of the issue. Therefore, the study will utilize both interviews and questionnaires, targeting both the faculty members and the students. On the faculty, the research will have a questionnaire for those from minority cultures and those from majority cultures. The study must include at least a hundred and fifty participants, with a majority being students and about 30% being the target faculty members. Despite that the students are not the target group, they will be involved in better understanding the issue, considering that they are central to it. Therefore, the students should be questioned on their perceptions of having faculty members from other cultures and how they feel the issue affects their academic performance. The minority faculty members must be asked questions that regard how they think the environment favors or fails to empower them to work. The data collected will be analyzed and interpreted in the descriptive technique.