Opening the Door to a Doctorate

A summer research program encourages minority students to consider careers in academe

Chart: Showing the racial and ethnic makeup of the nation's full-time professorsBy JENNIFER JACOBSON

Antoine Gates can think of only one black Ph.D. in the chemistry department at Jackson State University, a historically black institution where he is a chemistry major. With the exception of faculty members in Latino studies, Jose Rivera has not seen that many Hispanic professors at Ohio State

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