When Leyland Lucas was a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University, there weren't a lot of professors in the business department who looked like him. He's Black and originally from Guyana, in South America.

For about 30 years, the Ph.D. Project has supported students from underrepresented groups who are earning doctoral degrees in business — including at the University of Kansas. Now, it's attracted the ...

The Ph.D. Project works with universities to increase the racial diversity of professors in business schools. Schools like Yale and Ohio State were named in the investigation. By Stephanie Saul The ...