LOSING THE PRECIOUS FEW

Credit Hour: 1 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

The class will read from Tapia's text: Losing the Precious Few: How America Fails to Educate Minorities in Science and Engineering and then discuss in class issues associated with the underrepresentation of Blacks and Hispanics in academic and national science and engineering activities. Topics will include racism, immigration, student admissions, faculty hiring, faculty promotion, the role of minority serving institutions, mistaking foreign minorities for the Precious Few, support issues and leadership.