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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Even with the increase in women and minorities, there are (women and racial and ethnic) minority faculty and student organizations to serves as networking tools, and to address concerns. Many of these faculty feel they are unable to climb the ranks in white and/or white male dominated field and/or department. Part of that is because most of these women and racial and ethnic minorities aren't the key decision makers. Students often don't notice that a lot of the diverse faces they see are either adjunct, nontenured full-time faculty, and are overworked and underpaid in comparison to the other faculty in the department and/or university. Even the tenured minority faculty often don't become department heads and graduate directors--unless the departments have no other alternatives--they often don't have a voice in the department and are on the sidelines doing research/teaching/mentoring.
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Oh, this is absolutely true. I just wondered if it was a national trend. I know that I'm in an extremely white, extremely male-centered field (hi, 200 black female architects in the US!), so when I look at friends in B-school, law school, and especially PhD programs in the social sciences, their cohorts seem infinitely more diverse than any of my classes were. I guess it's all relative.
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