Twentieth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations

Abstract

The goal of equal opportunity in higher education, as well as diversity in higher education, is becoming a fleeting concept, especially in graduate education in America. Research universities in the United States are internationally known as the foremost institutions in graduate education, and although they have been successful in recruiting students of all nationalities, ethnic groups, and religions for their student population. U.S. graduate schools have been less successful in recruiting and retaining Hispanic, Latinx, African American, and American Indian citizens. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Education, the proportion of minority students in higher education declines as one moves from baccalaureate to master’s to professional and doctoral degree programs, and at each level, the percentage is well below the percentage of these individuals in the U.S. population. This paper reexamines diversity in the light of the SFA v Harvard case.