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Article: News and Views: Yale's Substandard Record in Hiring Black Faculty
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- March 31, 1997
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News and Views: Yale's Substandard Record in Hiring Black Faculty
Traditionally, many of the nation's great universities fall back on the "no blacks in the Ph.D. pipeline" defense to explain their failure to hire black faculty. Yale University, which has shown no net gains in black faculty for nearly a quarter of a century, offers a new explanation.
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, in 1973, there were 34 black tenured or tenure-track professors institution-wide at Yale university. Twenty-two years later, in 1995, there was an identical number of tenured or tenure-track professors at the university. Over this period of more than two decades, there was a large increase in the overall number ...