Inside Higher Ed: Where Are the Minority Ph.D.’s? In Tampa, Actually
TAMPA — One by one they took to the stage to receive their plaques, each story seemingly more compelling than the last. The single mother with four kids. The young man who had lived in a friend’s car for a spell. The cancer survivor whose parents had died when he was four years old.
The “graduation” ceremony at the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, the 15th of which took place here last weekend, is the most striking element of one of the most unusual gatherings in higher education, where nearly 1,100 minority doctoral candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients convene to learn how to prepare for a career as a professor, to network and, perhaps most importantly, to exhort each other to keep going.
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