June 08, 2005

National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein

Foreign Students Displace Americans, Especially Minorities, in U.S. Universities
What affirmative action giveth, immigration taketh away.

That could easily be the subtitle of a report highlighting the lack of diversity among graduate students.

The study, "Diversity and the Ph.D.," published by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in May 2005, finds that only 7 percent of Ph.D. recipients in 2003 were U.S.-born Blacks or Hispanics â€â€