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7 Beating the Odds: Preparing Minorities for Research Careers in the Chemical Sciences
7 Beating the Odds: Preparing Minorities for Research Careers in the Chemical Sciences
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For example, I have seen Michael Summers stand in front of a group of black parents of very high-achieving students and say, "We have a problem in health care involving minorities. This is what it is for blacks, this is what it is for Latinos, and this is what it is for whites." There is a power imbalance, which is why Michael Summers looks such parents in the eye and says, "If you don't solve it, if you don't get involved in research, who will?
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That was when I came to understand just how different white schools could be. When I went to Hampton University, the students who were from northern public schools, private schools, and other countries clearly had a superior educational background compared with mine.
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It became clear to me that if all the faculty members in the math department are white males except for two women, and if we are going to increase the numbers of minorities and women that we have, we will need the help of a lot of white males. It was that passion from the 1970s that led me to work with other students there, from graduate students who were having problems in statistics courses, to undergraduates who were trying to become engineers but could not get past the first calculus course.
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This is why HBCUs such as Spelman, Morehouse, Hampton, and Xavier have been able increasingly to educate students who sometimes do not have the desired academic background upon entering college, but who build the necessary background while there. One of the challenges we face is that 70 percent of African American students are at schools other than HBCUs, and people do not realize that.
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Greif, Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
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Greene, and G.L. Greif, Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002, p.
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Sixty percent of the undergraduate students major in science and engineering, with the typical student belonging to an honor society. One of the things that makes our university competitive is that we have so many first-generation Americans whether they are from Russia, one of the Asian countries, Nigeria, or the Islands and they are all focused.
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It is getting more kids who want to be smart. It is somehow thinking out of the box about ways of connecting with these kids at earlier ages so that they see themselves as scientists by becoming involved with science throughout their undergraduate experience.
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" The next week, Tom Cech called and said, "Freeman, give me two Meyerhoff students next summer." Every summer he has had two. When he became the president of Howard Hughes, I sent him an email message telling him where his former students wereat Harvard, Yale, Baylor, doing a M.D./Ph.D.
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