News and Views: Racial Diversity Ailing at the University of Michigan Medical School

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: June 30, 1996 | Copyright information

News and Views: Racial Diversity Ailing at the University of Michigan. Medical School

Standard wisdom holds that the solution to the problem of racial diversity on campus is simply a matter of accumulating a significant core of black students and faculty. Not necessarily so. Have a look at the medical school at the University of Michigan.

At first blush, as the lawyers like to say, the University of Michigan Medical School appears to be a model of racial diversity. Blacks make up 11 percent of the medical students and there are 26 blacks on the faculty of the medical school.

Yet, over the ...

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