Minority Ph.D. Students Convene to Further Diversity in Faculty Ranks

Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog
October 27, 2007
Minority Ph.D. Students Convene to Further Diversity in Faculty Ranks

Arlington, Va. — More than a thousand minority doctoral students from around the country gathered here this weekend for the Compact for Faculty Diversity’s 14th annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. The four-day conference, the largest of its kind, aims to counter the shortage of minority faculty members.
Enticing minority students and scholars into academe is especially critical, said Ansley A. Abraham Jr., director of the Southern Regional Education Board’s Doctoral Scholars program (a co-sponsor of the event), given the Labor Department’s prediction that the greatest job growth in the next decade will be for holders of doctorates. “If we miss that opportunity to diversify the faculty,” he said, “it won’t come again in yours or my lifetime.”
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