Good departmental practices can help women and minority faculty thrive and make the greatest possible contribution to the academic enterprise. Several recent books have explored what is wrong with the current way of doing business. In this article, the author outlines steps to bring U.S. minority and European American women faculty--at both the junior and the senior levels--closer to full citizenship on U.S. campuses. In addition, she suggests how to coach senior faculty to recognize and then rise above cognitive mistakes they often make unwittingly. Examples of such errors include elitism that blinds one to quality outside one's own circle, the longing to clone, the stereotypical assumption that only European American men possess professional competence above suspicion, and snap judgments. These mistakes and lapses in critical thinking frequently result in the underrating of women and minority colleagues and, at times, in the overrating of majority men, immigrant, and international faculty. Ten recommendations are offered to avoid such mistakes in the future.