[...] From 1993 to 2003, the percentage of tenured black professors on the Ivy faculties remained essentially flat at 2 percent. The only Ivy campus where black professors accounted for more than 3 percent of the tenured faculty in 2003 was Brown, which had 17 black professors with tenure, or 4 percent of its tenured faculty.
There was also little change in the tenure-track positions, the entry-level jobs that give professors a chance to earn permanent positions. In 2003, black professors had no more than 4 percent of the tenure-track positions at any Ivy university, and at Brown there were none.
"We don't do enough as an academic culture to recruit and nurture young students of color," said Robin D. G. Kelley, an anthropology professor at Columbia University who is black. "I could probably invite all of the African-American faculty in the humanities at major universities across the nation to a party, and they would fit in my house. And it is not that big; I live in a New York City apartment." [...]
| That's what leaped out at me from Karen W. Arenson's registration-required New York Times article "Little Advance Is Seen in Ivies' Hiring of Minorities and Women" based on data in "The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League" (856 KB in PDF format)
An aside: Joshua P. Rodgers' Harvard Crimson article "Islamic Awareness Week Begins: Speakers highlight ties between African-American and Islamic communities"
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