Professor Featured in National Audio Forum on Increasing Diversity

AUSTIN, Texas—Oct. 21, 2009—Communication professor Richard Cherwitz, who leads the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium (IE) at the university, presented "How Institutions Can Diversify the Graduate Student Body" for a national audio forum with Inside Higher Ed.

Despite recent gains in minority enrollments and the creation of outreach programs at many graduate schools, the student body in graduate programs is overwhelmingly white. And in many fields, graduate programs worry about their inability to attract American applicants. A growing number of experts believe that while graduate admissions efforts are important, much of the work to diversify the graduate student body must start in undergraduate programs.

The forum included representatives from 40 institutions and can be heard online.

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