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Discuss “Diverse faculty sparse”

Carnegie Mellon’s minority faculty members compose only 13 percent of the university’s total faculty population, according to this year’s fall staff survey by the U.S. Department of Education, which was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education Oct. 8. This puts Carnegie Mellon in the below-average range for percentage of minority faculty at colleges and universities in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

“The importance of minority faculty is the same as the importance to Carnegie Mellon of all aspects of its diversity­ — they make us better,” Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon stated via e-mail. “Beyond the general value of diversity, minority faculty also serve as role models for minority students.

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