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underrepresented minority

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underrepresented minority
Social medicine Any ethnic group–African American, Hispanic, Native American–whose representation among professionals in biomedical sciences is disproportionately less than their proportion in the general population. See Affirmative action, Bakke decision, Project 3000 by 2000, Reverse discrimination.


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Specifically, diversity outcomes were positive among the 118 medical schools in the study if the proportion of underrepresented minority graduates (URMs) exceeded 10%, or the total nonwhite student population was more than 36%.
Economics professor Bill Harbaugh has challenged the program, known as the Underrepresented Minority Recruitment Program, in e-mails to UO President Dave Frohnmayer.
Most disturbing about this data is the obvious implication: without more persons of color earning advanced degrees, there will remain an inadequate supply of underrepresented minority faculty (who at present comprise a woeful 7 percent of full-time faculty at public doctoral institutions), perpetuating a Lack of diversity across college campuses.
 
 
 
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