Department of Economics

Diversity Activities

The Department of Economics does not have a diversity mission statement but we follow very carefully the goals and objectives expresses by Chancellor Cordova regarding diversity.

To this end, we monitor very closely our faculty hiring and graduate students admissions. Regarding to gender, Economics is targeting the national numbers that are available to us. We have 27% (6 out 22 faculty) women in our faculty, well above the national average in 2006, which was 18.6%. We are very close to the percentage of Ph.D.'s awarded to women, which is 32.7%. Regarding ethnicity, we have a large percentage of Asian and Hispanic faculty, we do not have any African American yet. This group is very small in the national pool.

Our graduate program is also highly diverse with a more or less 50/50 division between men and women. Most of our students are international from China, Korea, India, Turkey and Taiwan.