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Career Track to Tenure Track: A Nonprofit Organization Encourages Members of Minorities to Become Business-School Professors

Filed under Diversity and Careers, Graduate School and Funding
Posted by Libraries, February 15, 2006
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Katherine S. Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 52, Issue 19, Page A10, January 13, 2006

The PhD Project was created to encourage black, Hispanic, and Native American business professionals to become doctoral students, and ultimately, business professors. The project’s reasoning: having more minority faculty members means that more minority students will join the work force. Although black professors accounted for only 4 percent of full-time business faculty and Hispanic professors only 2 percent in 2003, the PhD Project was responsible for more than doubling the number of minority business professors since the project began in 1994 to 760.

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