The Ph.D. Project, a program designed to raise the number of minority business-school professors, recently helped its 1,000th student complete a doctoral degree in business. Shalei Simms, who earned a Ph.D. in management from Rutgers University at Newark, is an assistant professor of management at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The Ph.D. Project was created in 1994, when there were 294 minority business professors with doctorates in the United States. Along with its 1,000 alumni, the program also works with 400 doctoral students in universities across the nation.
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rjensen65 - November 25, 2009 at 6:47 am
Bernie’s Dream — 1,000 and GrowingProgram to Fund and Otherwise Support Minority Business and Accounting Doctoral Students2008 Annual Report — http://www.kpmgfoundation.org/pdfs/080427_FoundAR08_POST2.pdf VIDEO: Bernie Milano, President – The PhD Project & KPMG Foundation — Click Here http://www.diversityinc.com/content/1757/article/3151/?VIDEO_Bernie_Milano_President__The_PhD_Project__KPMG_Foundation The PhD Project — http://www.phdproject.org/ Since 1994, The PhD Project has more than tripled the number of minority business school professors…from 294 to over 960. These individuals are inspiring and encouraging a new generation of business professionals. Click here to learn more about our fifteen years of achievements, real insights on the journey to a PhD degree and the professors who are making a big impact.Are you ready to be the next role model? Currently, The PhD Project has 400 minority doctoral student members pursuing their dream. Like you, they were professionals or recent grads satisfying their quest for a high level of achievement and answering the call to mentor. With an expansive network of support, The PhD Project is now helping them prepare for success in academia. Whether you become involved as a doctoral student, professor, participating university, or supporting organization…just become involved. Learn more by visiting the links on the left. Participation in The PhD Project is available to anyone of African-American, Hispanic American and Native American descent who is interested in business doctoral studies.Jensen CommentThe PhD Project commenced in the KPMG Foundation under the guidance of Executive Partner Bernie Milano who increasingly devoted more time, money, and sweat to raise money from other accounting firms and from corporations. It has since expanded beyond accounting doctoral programs into other business disciplines.Above and beyond helping minority students get into selected doctoral programs, Bernie has been dogged about trying every which way to see them to the graduation day endings when a wide array colleges in literally every part of the world are eager to hire them. These students have many more hurdles to cross than most other doctoral students, and Bernie’s Dream is to help them across the biggest hurdles without making it any easier for them then all other doctoral students.Most importantly, the salting of these graduates around the world as role models is increasingly vital to inspiring undergraduate and even K12 minority students to aspire to become practicing professionals and/or doctoral students themselves. These role models are living proof that Berne’s Dream can become their dream.Thank you Bernie, KPMG, and the many other accounting firms and corporations have made Bernie’s Dream come true.How doctoral programs can help minority candidatesVideo on the PhD Completion Program — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWtUTZk1w4Q Also read about the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — Click Here Added Jensen RantOften potential minority candidates for accounting doctoral programs are CPAs. They are strong accounting candidates that are attracted to accounting and turned off by the heavy mathematics, statistics, and econometrics years of study in accountancy doctoral programs that have almost no accountancy. It would help greatly if some of our leading doctoral programs would open up paths of study other than “accountics.” Alternative study and research paths could include paths of case method and field research. Those graduates may never publish in The Accounting Review (which now publishes zero case and field research studies according to the latest report of the TAR Editor), but there are research journals that will publish case and field research studies.My rants ad nauseum on the narrow mindedness of present accountics doctoral programs are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms