Minority Professors Are Missing From Top Science Programs

Students in underrepresented minority groups earn undergraduate and doctoral degrees in science and engineering at much greater rates than minority professors hold faculty jobs in those same disciplines at the nation's top research universities.

That is a key finding of a report financed by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The gap between the proportion of science and engineering degrees awarded to underrepresented minority students and the proportion

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