CNN has reported that a new survey indicates that more women and minorities are earning Ph.D.s than ever before, though some said key fields -- from business to engineering ¿ are still lacking.
The survey of 382 universities nationwide found that 17,322 women earned doctorates in the academic year ending 1997, making up 41 percent of all Ph.D. recipients. Ten years earlier, women received about a third of the degrees; in 1967, the total was just 12 percent.
At GVSU, 42 percent of the 485 faculty members are women, and 14 percent are minorities, according to the university's affirmative action report from August of this year.
