Overall, the involvement of people of all colors at the doctoral level can be fairly characterized as minimal. The need for immediate response is acute (Turock, 2003, p. 493).
Doctoral fellows serve as the nucleus of energy for continued recruitment of a diverse doctoral student population. Attrition through graduation will extend the diversity to the LIS professoriate. Future generations of librarians are educated by the professoriate (Bonnici & Burnett, 2005, p. 125).
As is demonstrated in the larger field of librarianship, there is a serious dearth of minority scholars in the Library …