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A Face of Few Colors

Despite the efforts of some faculty and students, minority repersentation in the math and science concentrations lags behind the rest of Harvard.

According to Lewis, the field of computer science sees a similar problem with concentrators tending to enter the business rather than academia--which results in a small number of black and Latino computer science professors.

"Many of those [concentrators] wind up on the business side rather than on the academic side, so the number of black or Hispanic faculty in computer science is extremely small nationally," he writes.

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