Wendy Y. Carter-Veale, Robin H. Cresiski, Gwen Sharp, Jordan D. Lankford, Fadel Ugarte (2024). Assessing departmental readiness to support minoritized faculty. This exploratory case study pilots a readiness instrument to evaluate the commitment and willingness of a biomedical department at a primarily undergraduate institution to embrace faculty diversity before initiating a postdoctoral faculty conversion program. We introduce the Community Readiness Model (CRM) into an academic context, offering academic departments a robust framework and tool to evaluate readiness and capacity to recruit, retain, and support REM faculty.