Minority Access to Research Careers An Evaluation of the Honors Undergraduate Research Training Program (1985) / Chapter Skim
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Minority Participation in the Biomedical Sciences
Minority Participation in the Biomedical Sciences
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The white percentage, however, rose at each step. Whites were 89.3 percent of the freshman biology majors, 90.4 percent of the biology baccalaureate recipients, and 93.3 percent of the biology doctorate recipients.
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In subsequent years, both groups increased their shares of bachelor's degrees and biology degrees. For both groups, the share of biology bachelor's degrees rose more than the share of total bachelor's degrees.
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(946,877) aA person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
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. In the late l970s, blacks comprised between 2.4 and 3.l percent of the full-time graduate student population in biological sciences but received less than 2.4 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded through I960.l Conclusion: The Role of the MARC Honors Program Minority group members are underrepresented at all stages of the scientific career: undergraduate degrees, graduate enrollment, doctoral degrees, and employment in the doctorate labor force.
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5l982 data include agricultural sciences. CA person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
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SOURCE: National Research Council, Survey of Earned Doctorates, l973-82.
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provide expanded opportunity for graduate study by increasing the funding options open to minority students. The MARC Honors Undergraduate Research Training Program seeks to increase the rate of graduate study by improving institutional networks, raising aspirations, and improving the preparation of undergraduate students.
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