On November 18th The PhD Project, an award-winning program to increase diversity in management, inducted their first members into their newly established PhD Project Hall of Fame at their annual conference in Chicago. Starting in 2012, a new class of inductees will be selected annually, with supporters of The PhD Project and the public invited to submit nominations for each year's class.
The inaugural inductees are: Quiester Craig, Ph.D., dean of the School of Business and Economics at North Carolina A&T State University; John A. Elliott, Ph.D., dean of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College; Bernard J. Milano, president of The PhD Project and of the KPMG Foundation, the founder and lead funder of The Project; Andrew J. Policano, Ph.D., dean of The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine; and Melvin T. Stith, Ph.D., dean of the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University.
The PhD Project established the Hall of Fame to recognize a select few who have inspired many. These individuals have sustained an unwavering commitment to The PhD Project's mission and their positive leadership has resulted in significant encouragement and impact within The Project's network of minority business doctoral students and faculty. These doctoral students and faculty are role models and mentors attracting minority students to the study of business, thereby enhancing the talent pool available to corporate America.
The PhD Project was created in 1994 to address the severe under-representation of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans in management by diversifying the front of the classroom-the business school faculty. A diverse faculty encourages more minorities to pursue business degrees, thereby increasing the pool of minority applicants for positions in today's multicultural corporate environment. Since its inception in 1994, The PhD Project has increased the number of African-American, Hispanic-American, and Native American business professors from 294 to 1,113.
For more information visit: http://www.phdproject.org or contact Lisa King.
