2001-2002 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Communication: Examining the Pipeline to Journalism and Mass Communication Faculties
By
Lee B. Becker, Jisu Huh, Tudor Vlad and George L. Daniels
Abstract
About 15% of the domestic doctoral degree recipients from the nation's communication and mass communication doctoral programs in 2000-2001 were members of racial or ethnic minorities. The percentage matches that for minority faculty members already holding positions in journalism and mass communication programs around the country.
Doctoral programs housed in journalism and mass communication are a bit more diverse than communication programs generally.
Just more than half of the doctoral degrees granted by the nation's communication programs were to women. If all the hiring in the next year by journalism and mass communication programs were of women–which is possible, given the numbers being produced–the faculty would only become about 3% more female and still be considerably lower than parity.
Becker, L. B., Huh, J., Vlad, T., and Daniels, G. L. (2002, August). 2001-2001survey of doctoral programs in communication: examining the pipeline to journalism and mass communication faculties. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Miami, FL.
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