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Desegregation and dissent at MIT’s PhD program

I read recently this paper (subscription required) by Sandy Darity and Arden Kreeger in HOPE. in the paper they show how the 1970s efforts to attract more African-American PhD students were eventually abandoned, since faculty deemed the project a failure. They argue that the: "factor that shaped the MIT faculty’s conclusion that the experiment had failed was their impression that black graduate students—particularly when they entered the program in sufficiently large numbers to form a Black...

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