Inside Higher Ed: A Haven for Minority Scholars
The number of black, Hispanic and American Indian recipients of Ph.D.’s has been edging higher in recent years, but members of those groups are still significantly underrepresented in the proportion of all doctorates earned.
So it’s hardly surprising that at most of the academic meetings that a black graduate student like La Tonya M. Green goes to, such as those in her discipline of urban studies and planning, she feels like “a speck in a room,” as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral student put it at the Compact for Faculty Diversity’s Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Washington last weekend.
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