Appendix 5 - Charts and Tables

Table 1: Earned science and engineering doctoral degrees, by race/ethnicity, and citizenship: 1977-99.

Table 2: Number of Minority Ph.D. Recipients, 1998-2001, Rice University.

Table 3: Faculty respondents rating of the priority for the Rice administration, their department, and themselves for increasing the number of underrepresented minority graduate students.

Table 4: Faculty View of Department Stance Toward Increasing Minority Graduate Participation by the department.

Table 5: Faculty respondents rating of items related to accepting and supporting new graduate students in their research group.

Table 6: Faculty View of their Own Strategies to Increase Minority Graduate Participation.

Table 7: Faculty respondents’ perception of the optimal percentage of their department’s graduate students that should be underrepresented minorities at Rice.

Table 8: Factors that pose challenges to Rice’s goal of increasing participation of underrepresented minority graduate students.

Table 9: How respondents say department generally views underrepresented minority graduate students.

Table 10: Level of concern about maintaining departmental rank (or quality) in admitting more underrepresented minority graduate students.

Table 11: Types of rewards provided by funding agencies to encourage the recruitment of underrepresented minorities to faculty respondents.

Table 12: Faculty respondents rating of how effective current rewards from agencies are in motivating them to recruit underrepresented minorities into their research program.

Table 13: What factors would encourage faculty respondents to recruit underrepresented minorities to their research program.

Table 14: Impact that Criterion 2 had on faculty respondents’ decision to support an underrepresented minority graduate student research grant.