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Spelman College

To address the scarcity of Black women who earn degrees in economics, and grow the number of Black women economists in the professoriate

  • Amount $655,936
  • City Atlanta, GA
  • Investigator Marionette Holmes
  • Year 2019
  • Program Higher Education
  • Sub-program

According to the American Economic Association, only 15 Black Americans received a Ph.D. in economics in 2016. Of those 15, only five were women. This grant supports an effort by Spelman College to meaningfully improve those numbers through a set of interrelated initiatives designed to instill in black undergraduate women an interest in economics as a profession and prepare them to succeed in graduate study in the field. Funded activities include a summer bridge program for incoming freshmen aimed at strengthening participants’ core mathematical competencies; a distinguished speaker series featuring successful women of color who have made a career in economics; initiatives designed to improve the chances of successful application to an economics graduate program, including a journal club, GRE prep training, and a summer program that would provide economic research experience; and facilitated discussions of the challenges women and women of color face in white-male-dominated environments. The program will be supplemented with a scholarship fund that will ensure equal access to program offerings regardless of students’ economic circumstances. Grant funds will support these and associated administrative costs for three years.

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