The University of Michigan was the site of a program in the 1990s that became a model for the PhD Project, a national effort to increase the number of minority business faculty members at universities across the country.
Decades later, U-M has agreed with the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to no longer be a part of it.
“We were the leaders and best,” said U-M professor David B. Wooten, who was a student leader in U-M’s Minority Summer Institute while earning his PhD and a member of the PhD Project’s Hall of Fame. “It does hurt to see us take a knee on this.”…