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Diversity Lacking in Engineering, Architecture

The city of Portland’s difficulty in finding minority architects and engineers to participate in its Minority Evaluator Program comes as no surprise to many who say the professions have long been lacking in diversity, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. The city launched the program in May with the goal of requiring at least one minority evaluator to sit on all panels that review and award non-low-bid city contracts. Of the country’s 192,860 registered architects, 6.3 percent are Asian, 5.6 percent are Hispanic, 2.7 percent are black and 0.3 percent is Native American, according to the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau. Minorities make up just 6 percent of the American Institute of Architects’ 52,000 members, according to a diversity study the AIA commissioned in 2005. Three percent are Asian, 2 percent are Hispanic/Latino and 1 percent is black. Click here to read more.
 
 



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