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Science 28 August 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5381, pp. 1268 - 1270
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5381.1268
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Wanted--A Better Way to Boost Numbers of Minority Ph.D.s

Jeffrey Mervis

By eliminating the minority component of its prestigious graduate fellowship program, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has signaled it is searching for a new way to carry out its mandate to increase the numbers of students from underrepresented minority groups who enter science and engineering. NSF's action comes in the wake of a string of legal and political reversals for affirmative action programs that have sent institutions--both public and private--scrambling to find ways to diversify the scientific work force without running afoul of the law.

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