The University of Michigan was the site of a program in the 1990s that became a model for the PhD Project, a national effort to increase the number of minority business faculty members at universities across the country.
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Doctors wish they wouldn'tHow this AP photographer captured Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's iconic kissWith only 3 women left, an Amazon tribe faced extinction. An unexpected birth now brings hopeSome people tape their mouths shut at night. Doctors wish they wouldn'tUS ice cream makers say they'll stop using artificial dyes by 2028Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English insteadIf you're struggling to lose weight, could chilling your carbs help?Viajeros buscan conexiones tras cierre de gran parte de Oriente Medio al transporte aéreo por guerraThe University of Michigan was the site of a program in the 1990s that became a model for the PhD Project, a national effort to increase the number of minority business faculty members at universities across the country. Decades later, U-M has agreed with the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to no longer be a part of it., to end its longstanding partnership with the PhD Project, which has supported the earning of business PhDs by people from historically underrepresented groups in America. Thirty other colleges and universities also agreed to end their partnerships with the nonprofit organization. “We were the leaders and best,” said U-M professor David B. Wooten, who was a student leader in U-M’s Minority Summer Institute while earning his PhD and a member of the PhD Project’sU-M’s agreement with the federal government to end its partnership with the PhD project is the latest impact to the state’s largest university of President Donald Trump’s efforts toIran’s World Cup place in US put in doubt by Middle East war. FIFA has Iraq next in line Last year, U-M ended its 8-year, multimillion-dollar DEI project. The university also stopped providing gender-affirming care for minors at Michigan Medicine under pressure from Trump, who calls it “ “I’m disappointed but not fully surprised,” Wooten said of UM’s agreement with the government to end the partnership with the PhD project. The federal government’s announcement of the agreement with U-M and other universities came almost a year after the Education Departmentbegan in 1994, after foundation and business leaders noticed the lack of diversity in the corporate world. Its mission is “to expand the pool of workplace talent by developing business school faculty who encourage, mentor, and support tomorrow’s leaders,” according to the organization’s website. It hosts an annual conference that exposes prospective candidates to the path of earning a PhD along with opportunities to meet doctoral students, professors and partner organizations. It also connects students with scholarships and other ways to cover costs. The number of PhD business candidates among Black, Hispanic and Native Americans has grown sixfold from 294 in 1994 when the project was founded to over 1,700 in 2023, according to the organization’s latestU-M was a pioneer in a program to help minority candidates earn their doctorate degrees. Years before the launch of the PhD Project, the University of Michigan was home to the, which offered a six-week summer program from 1990-93 for prospective minority PhD students to take classes, attend seminars, meet minority faculty and explore the journey to an academic career.Around the same time, leaders at KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation and Citibank launched a series of meetings with other corporate and academic leaders to address diversifying business school faculties. The discussions were wide-ranging but included examining the strategy of the Minority Summer Institute before the establishment of the PhD Project.In the announcement, the Office for Civil Rights said the PhD Project is “an organization which provides doctoral students with insights into obtaining a PhD, but unlawfully limits eligibility based on race of the participants.” U-M, along with institutions such as Ohio State University, University of California- Berkeley and University of Chicago, violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by “partnering with an organization that discriminates on the basis of race,” the federal government’s announcement said. “This is the Trump effect in action: institutions of higher education are agreeing to cut ties with discriminatory organizations, recommitting themselves to abiding by federal law, and restoring equality of opportunity on campuses across the nation,” said US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “We are hopeful that other institutions with similarly discriminatory practices will follow suit, paving the way for a future where we reject judging individuals by the color of their skin and once again embrace the principles of merit, excellence, and opportunity.” U-M spokesperson Kay Jarvis offered one statement in response to numerous questions, including how many PhD candidates graduated from U-M as a result of the partnership. “The Ross School of Business has not been a member of the PhD Project since March 2025,” Jarvis said via email.“Any time the University of Michigan collaborates with the Trump administration is a day of shame,” said Silke-Maria Weineck, U-M’s Grace Lee Boggs Collegiate Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies. “The Trump administration’s policies are designed to roll back what little progress we have made in creating a more equitable institution. They are driven by racism, pure and simple. Every time we collaborate with them is a day of shame.” Former U-M Flint faculty member Mark Perry took the opposite stance, calling the PhD Project an organization with “a 30+ year history of blatant and ongoing racial discrimination.” “It’s unfortunate and embarrassing that the University of Michigan has been affiliated with a racist organization and appeared as a ‘Supporting University’ on its websites for more than a quarter century, since at least 2001,” said Perry, a vocal advocate fighting diversity, equity and inclusion programs in academia. “U-M’s partnership with the PhD Project could accurately be described as a ‘joint venture in illegal discrimination,’ and it’s long overdue for the university to end its affiliation with a tarnished organization that discriminated on the basis of race for many decades in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” The PhD Project sent a statement via email that said the organization was founded “with the goal of providing more role models in the front of business classrooms and this remains our goal today.” “The PhD Project remains focused on our mission,” the statement said in part. “Our vision is to create a broader talent pipeline of current and future business leaders who are committed to excellence and to each other, through networking, mentorship, and unique events.”War spirals further as US and Israel exchange strikes with Iran and its allies
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