Here is “Justice Sotomayor says lack of black students at UM ‘a real problem.'” HT How Appealing.
An excerpt:
“We are making large improvement towards that kind of equality, but we’re still far from it when you look at the number of African Americans at the University of Michigan, there’s a real problem there,” Sotomayor said.
From Nick Reo–
Here are a couple of resources I thought you would appreciate that I became aware of at a recent conference. The resources come from two keynote speakers, scholars we should all be aware of.
Donna Nelson (http://cheminfo.ou.edu/~djn/djn.html) is an American Indian Chemistry Professor at the University of Oklahoma who has surveyed gender and racial composition of faculties at the top 50 U.S. research institutions. She presented the results of this study and has made the final report and their data available on her website.
National Analysis on Science & Engineering Faculties at Research Institutions- Final Report
http://cheminfo.ou.edu/~djn/diversity/briefings/Diversity%20Report%20Final.pdf
Summary Tables and Information from the study:
http://cheminfo.ou.edu/~djn/diversity/top50.html
Dorceta Taylor, Environmental Justice scholar from the University of Michigan, recently completed a related study that focuses on environmental and natural resource departments. Her results are reported in a recent issue of BioScience (February 2007- Vol. 57 No. 2). Also, see the Minority Environmental Leadership Development Institute website for some outstanding resources.
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