Earlier this year, University of Miami President Julio Frenk received the Bouchet Award, a prestigious honor named for the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in the United States. In his keynote address at the 13th annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education, Frenk commented on diversity, one of the core issues defining his presidency at the University of Miami, “Nearly 100 years after Bouchet’s death, the pipeline for faculty of color remains too narrow, the ranks of African-American scholars too thin. This is a challenge that all of us in higher education must...
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