The Serious Search for Black Faculty at MIT, 1995

Tenured black MIT faculty in 1995:

Phillip L. Clay - Urban Studies and Planning
Daniel Hastings - Aeronautics and Astronautics
Willard R. Johnson - Political Science
Kenneth R. Manning - History
F. Dale Morgan - Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Marcus A. Thompson - Music & Theater Arts
Cardinal Warde - Physics
James H. Williams, Jr. - Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

In view of the extreme scarcity of black scholars in science and engineering, even the militant left could not fault the Mas? sachusetts Institute of Technology for its slow progress in faculty diversification. But, unlike its peers, MIT has never fallen back on the standard "no blacks in the academic pipeline" defense. MIT continues to pursue an aggressive program of finding and recruit? ing black faculty. MIT's peer institution, the California Institute of Technology, has only one black person on a faculty of 295.