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Discriminatory Organizational Contexts and Black Scientists on Postsecondary Faculties

Severe underrepresentation of African-Americans among postsecondary faculty is often linked to educational pipeline “supply” problems, while institutional variations in “demand” for black faculty labor and barriers to their recruitment and retention receive less empirical attention. Using a nationally representative sample of college faculty from a wide array of institutions and science discipl...

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My association with the JCB began very early in my scientific career. In fact, it predated my understanding that there would even be a scientific career. In the mid-1970s while still an undergraduate, the JCB published my very first paper, a contribution noted perhaps less so for its reporting the characterization of the first known protein in plant cell walls than for a footnote that called at...

Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?

This paper explores the relationship between wages and the scientific orientation of R&D organizations. Firms who adopt a science-oriented research approach (i.e., “Science”) allow their researchers to pursue and publish an individual research agenda.. The adoption of Science may be associated with a “taste” for Science on the part of researchers (a Preference effect) and/or as a “ticket of adm...