In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial
diversity of their student bodies. They have been less successful,
however, in diversifying their faculties. This book identifies the
ways in which minority students make occupational choices, what
their attitudes are toward a career in academia, and why so few
become college professors.
Working with a large sample of high-achieving minority students
from a variety of institutions, the authors conclude that minority
students are no less likely than white students to aspire to
academic careers. But because minorities are less likely to go to
college and less likely to earn high grades within college, few end
up going to graduate school. The shortage of minority academics is
not a result of the failure of educational institutions to hire
them; but of the very small pool of minority Ph.D. candidates. In
examining why some minorities decide to become academics, the
authors conclude that same-race role models are no more effective
than white role models and that affirmative action contributes to
the problem by steering minority students to schools where they
perform relatively poorly. They end with policy recommendations on
how more minority students might be attracted to an academic
career.
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