Re: People of color at SVP

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 Pluto77189@aol.com wrote:
> This brings up something that I found a bit disturbing at school.  As
> the years passed at NCSU, I noticed the number of black or hispanic
> students began to drop in all my biology/zoology courses.  Upon
> graduation, one could count the number of black students (out of the
> whole group of hunderds in zoology) on one or two hands.  It seems
> that biology(and zoology in particular) are not attracting many
> minority students at all.  Kind of weird.
> 
> The majors taken by certain minorities seem to be "self-segregating".  
> Certain etnic groups tended to take certain majors.  Zoology was
> almost all white, chemistry nearly all pakistani, indian and other
> asian ethnic backgrounds.  math was mostly asian and white.  The
> engineering was a decent balance, as were humanities and social
> sciences.
> 
> The strange thing is that there were almost NO minorities in my higher
> level life-science courses.  IT is really weird.  Through my entire
> time at NCSU, I only met ONE black student that was majoring in
> zoology.
> 
> There IS somethingkinda disturbing about it.  

How many employment opportunities in zoology and what's the pay scale
like?