I'd better get hopping if I want to be one of the 7%...
"As universities try to add more black and Hispanic professors to their faculties in the coming years, they will find they are limited by the lack of diversity among graduate students, according to a new study by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
The study, which is being released this week, said that only 7 percent of Ph.D. recipients in 2003 were black or Hispanic, while nearly a third of all Americans in the age group typically awarded the degrees were..."
(...and as a side note what, you might ask, is the "typical" PhD age group? 25 to 40--Ouch!)
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