{"id":20502,"date":"2012-11-28T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=20502"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:29:11","slug":"academic-opportunities-shared-through-the-phd-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/11\/academic-opportunities-shared-through-the-phd-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic opportunities shared through the PhD Pipeline."},"content":{"rendered":"

Studies show that minorities, particularly Hispanics and African-Americans, are dramatically under-represented on business school faculties. Achieving greater equity, experts say, will begin with getting more minority students into the \u201cpipeline\u201d—the PhD study process.<\/p>\n

Antoinette Smith, a member of the School of Accounting faculty in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) has made it her mission to spread the word: getting a PhD is within your reach. It\u2019s far from easy, but it\u2019s rewarding in many ways.<\/p>\n

On November 13, Smith and four of her colleagues shared information in a panel discussion, \u201cThe ABCs of a PhD in Business.\u201d The panel addressed an audience of business undergraduates as well as others who logged into the session.<\/p>\n

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Panelists Jonathan Milian, Abhijit Barua, Antoinette Smith, Cristobal Ruiz and William Newberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The figures make for a dramatic case: minorities represent only 3.7 percent of all business faculty members, and 5.4 percent of doctoral students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are there so few minorities in PhD programs?\u201d she asked. \u201cThe answer is simple: No one applies.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Smith, who started her PhD work when she was a single mother with two children, advanced academic study provided prestige and an income for her family, even during her studies. She uses her own example to help promote PhD Pipeline, a program at Duke University that introduces minority students to the doctoral process.<\/p>\n

Participants explain training for the academic life.<\/em><\/p>\n

The panelists echoed Smith\u2019s sense that a PhD, and a career in the academic side of business, were worth investigating. Abhijit Barua, who coordinates the PhD program in accounting; William Newberry, coordinator of the Management and International Business\u2019 PhD program; Jonathan Milian of the School of Accounting; and Cristobal Ruiz, assistant director of the School of Accounting, gave practical details<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting a doctorate will be costly in terms of time and effort, but the way Smith described the benefits was really inspirational,\u201d said Baldemar Fonseca, a junior majoring in accounting. \u201cBeing a minority, and the first in my generation of my family to go to college, it would be great to take on the ultimate academic achievement, the most advanced degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Studies show that minorities, particularly Hispanics and African-Americans, are dramatically under-represented on business school faculties. Achieving greater equity, experts say, will begin with getting more minority students into the \u201cpipeline\u201d—the PhD study process. Antoinette Smith, a member of the School of Accounting faculty in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU) has made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":20515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[16,158,512,625,2736,2388,2674],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23708,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions\/23708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}