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MINORITIES IN SCIENCE The Challenge for Change in Biomedicine MINORITIES IN SCIENCE The Challenge for Change in Biomedicine Edited by VIJAYA L. MELNICK Federal City College Washington, D.C. and FRANKLIN D. HAMILTON The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Minorities in science. "A Plenum/Rosetta edition." Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Minorities in medicine-United States. 2. Minorities in science-United States. 3. Medical education-United States. 4. Minorities-Education {Higher}-United States. I. Melnick, Vijaya L. II. Hamilton, Franklin D. [DNLM: I. Minority groups. 2. Science. Q172 M666j R693.M561977 507'.1 77-9465 ISBN 978-1-4757-5853-5 ISBN 978-1-4757-5851-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-5851-1 Proceedings of a conference at the annual meet,ing of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Boston, Massachusetts, February, 1976 This project was supported by grant number lR13GMMH23018·01 awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Science and the National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHEW First paperback printing 1977 © 1977 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1977 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced; stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher This volume is dedicated to George Mirron Willis Chairpersons Minorities in Science: Availability Percy J. Russell and Barriers That Affect Department of Biology Availability University of California at San Diego La Jolla, California Problems of Minorities at Majority Francine B. Essien Institutions Associate Professor of Biology Douglass College, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey Public Policy and Biomedical and Vijaya L. Melnick Behavioral Training: Effective Associate Professor of Biology Development of Existing Federal City College Potential Washington, D. C. Cora B. Marrett Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Financial Support for Minority Charles M. Goolsby President Scientific Activities in Education Organization of Black Scientists and Research Washington, D.C. Affirmative Action: Myth or Franklin D. Hamilton Reality? Associate Professor The University of Tennessee Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee vii viii Chairpersons Special Training Programs for Edgar Smith Minority Students in Science: Provost College Level School of Medicine University of Massachusetts Worcester, Massachusetts Special Training Programs for Cyrus J. Lawyer Minority Students in Science: Senior Program Associate Precollege Level Institute for Services to Education Washington, D.C. Shirley Mahaley Malcom Staff Associate Office of Opportunities in Science American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington, D.C. Contributors James L. Angel, Program Director, Medical College Admission Assessment Program, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C. Alonzo C. Atencio, Assistant Dean, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico Maxine Bleich, Associate Program Director, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, New York, New York Leroy T. Brown, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, Health Science Opportunity Programs, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Theodore M. Brown, Assistant Director, Center for Biomedical Education, City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York Jean V. Carew, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cam bridge, Massachusetts Jewel Plummer Cobb, Dean, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Therman E. Evans, Executive Secretary, Health Manpower Development Corporation, Washington, D.C. Miles Mark Fisher, IV, Executive Secretary, National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Washington, D.C. Wayne Fortunato-Schwandt, Office of Opportunities in Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. J. N. Gayles, Professor of Chemistry, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia ix x Contributors James C. Goodwin, Assistant to the Vice-President, University of Califor nia at Berkeley, Berkeley, California Margaret S. Gordon, Associate Director, Carnegie Council on Higher Education, Berkeley, California Zora J. Griffo, Special Programs Officer, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Franklin D. Hamilton, Associate Professor, The University of Tennessee Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Mary S. Harper, Assistant Chief, Center for Minority Group Mental Health Programs, National Institutes of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland Carl Hime, Director, Office of Academic Services, Many Farms High School, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Many Farms, Arizona James M. Jay, Professor of Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Sigfredo Maestas, Dean of Academic Affairs, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico Shirley Mahaley Malcom, Staff Associate, Office of Opportunities in Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washing ton, D.C. J. V. Martinez, Division of Physical Research, Energy Research and Devel opment Administration, Washington, D.C. James W. Mayo, Deputy Division Director, Division of Science Education Resources Improvement, Directorate for Science Education, National Sci ence Foundation, Washington, D.C. 20550 Richard P. McGinnis, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi Bobbie N. McNairy, Instructor of Mathematics, Prescott Junior High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Contributors xi Sidney A. McNairy, Jr., Health Scientist Administrator, Minority Biomedi cal Support Program, Division of Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C. Vijaya L. Melnick, Associate Professor of Biology, Federal City College, Washington, D.C. Woodrow A. Myers, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts Samuel M. Nabrit, Executive Director, The Southern Fellowship Fund, Atlanta, Georgia Luis Nieves, Program Director, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey Stanford A. Roman, Assistant Dean, Boston University School of Medi cine, Boston, Massachusetts Edward R. Roybal, Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat California Robert J. Schlegel, Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Public Policy, Charles Drew Postgraduate School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California William D. Wallace, Director, Summer Programs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Robert A. Warren, Associate Professor of Education, Texas A. & I. Univer sity of Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas Joseph W. Watson, Provost, Third College, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California
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