Study: Minority Faculty Severely Underrepresented in Top 100 STEM Departments
U.S. policymakers need to step in with policies that help boost the number of tenured and tenure-track minority faculty members in science and engineering fields, if the United States is to remain competitive on global scale in these areas, argued a group of minority scholars at a press conference on Capital Hill.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Wonderful study!! Let\’s keep this discussion going.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:54 pm
We need to increase the numbers of STEM people in ALL fields regardless of race, color or any other irrelevant characteristic. Take the racial caveats out of the study and you still have a gap in STEM professionals in the US.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Lloyd, why do you feel that race is an “irrelevant characteristic”?
November 1st, 2007 at 7:46 pm
“Lloyd, why do you feel that race is an “irrelevant characteristic”?”
Is there a distinctly latino way to design a spark plug? Does a biological experiment have a different outcome if an african american is running it? If an asian and a caucasian use the same formula to determine wind velocity do you expect them to arrive at a different answer? No to all of the above. That’s why race is irrelevant.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:16 pm
I think the article was more about participation in the STEM fields and not the race or ethnicity of the inventors…
I think your strawperson example is fairly lite on substance….