Re: Defining "underrepresented minorities" Moreland, Kim 26 Dec 2000 17:32 EST
Charlie, Are we the only two research administrators in our offices today? And, what are we doing here, now that I think of it. We've never pushed this issue with NIH. It does strike me as an area in which our EEO offices might have some insight. At least for the labor market, we're looking at underrepresentation on a local and state level. Happy New Year! Kim Kim Moreland Director, Grant and Contract Administration Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Avenue North, LY 201 Seattle, WA 98109 Phone: 206/677-4868 Fax: 206/677-6221 xxxxxx@fhcrc.org -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Hathaway [mailto:xxxxxx@AECOM.YU.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 12:03 PM To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: Defining "underrepresented minorities" Happy New Year- I thought this had come up before but an Archives search found nothing. How do we define "underrepresented minority"? NIH now says the following in most announcements concerning this subject: "...underrepresented investigators are defined as individuals belonging to a particular ethnic or racial group that has been determined by the applicant institution to be underrepresented in biomedical or behavioral research." [In most cases, NIH programs for minorities also require U.S. citizenship or perm res] So...how do we interpret this? Certainly, most would agree that African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders are underrepresented in biomedical research. And we might agree that western Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, and Indians are not underrepresented. Are we to consider underrepresentation among U.S. citizens of the ethnic group or among the group world-wide? IS THIS THE TYPE OF REASONING THAT NIH IS ASKING OF THE INSTITUTIONS? OR....are local/institutional issues to be considered? Is this characteristic vagueness in the NIH-ese supposed to be a window for promoting diversity on given campuses? AND....if an institution has not made any formal determination of what constitutes an underrepresented minority, can it accept any NIH grants designed for minorities as defined above? Does anyone know of any attempts, successful or otherwise, to push this issue in an NIH application? Charlie Hathaway ************************************** Charles B. Hathaway, Ph.D., Director Office of Grant Support Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, NY 10461-1975 Phone: 718 430-3642 Fax: 718 430-8822 email: xxxxxx@aecom.yu.edu http://www.aecom.yu.edu/ogs ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================