Also: Morehouse has Produced 13% of Male AA PhD. Students in C.S.

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MOREHOUSE PRODUCES 13 PERCENT OF MALE AFRICAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Currently, there are only 93 male African American computer science Ph.D. students in the country. Of those, Morehouse produced 12.

“This is counting every single black male from every school in the nation. Of all of those African American Ph.D. male students, 13 percent are coming from Morehouse, from this lab. That’s a historic number,” explained Kinnis Gosha, assistant professor of computer science and director of the Culturally Relevant Computing Lab at the College.

“Morehouse literally is changing the computer science field in terms of diversity with those types of numbers,” he added.

According to a Taulbee Survey, only 17 people who identified themselves as black or African American actually earned doctorates in computer science in 2014, with an additional two earning doctorates in computer engineering and eight in information.

“{These numbers are} important because of this nation’s need to produce a STEM workforce,” he said. “That’s where an overwhelming number of jobs are going. We need people with this skill set or we will have this nation bringing in people from [other countries].”

In fact, according to the National Math and Science Initiative, “STEM job creation over the next 10 years will outpace non-STEM jobs significantly, growing 17 percent, compared to 9.8 percent for non-STEM positions.”

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