We also know that the existing admissions criteria in all the graduate programs in this country are discriminatory. And that there are no correlation between standardized test scores and successful thesis. These criteria also miss out on judging motivation, work ethic, and creativity. They each graduated with a Ph.D. from our graduate program with no less than seven first author independent works published in peer review journals. Frankly, we know that there is a lack of recruitment strategies for us.
Most institutions leave their recruitment to administrators.
The scientists are nowhere to be found in recruiting science students, especially minority students. We also know that there are many institutions who are recruiting in Asia, Russia and India, and they have never set foot in any historically black college or university. They have never set foot any Hispanic serving institution like the University of Texas at El Paso. We know that the environment for many is very unfriendly, and that was also alluded to earlier. These are the things we have to contend with.