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    <div><strong>Building a more Diverse Faculty**</strong></div>
    <div><strong>by Amy Scott, Marketplace Education Correspondent, NPR</strong></div>
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    <span>Keisha Allen is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where leaders are trying to increase faculty diversity. - </span><span>Amy Scott/Marketplace</span>
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    <div><span>**Special Note: Listen for a quote from Edward Glover, Meyerhoff Scholar and President of UMBC's Black Student Union!</span></div>
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    <div><strong>A University confronts bias in Faculty Hiring</strong></div>
    <div><strong>by Amy Scott, Marketplace Education Correspondent, NPR</strong></div>
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    <span>Tyson King-Meadows is chair of the Africana Studies department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which is taking new steps to increase faculty diversity. - </span><span>Amy Scott/Marketplace</span>
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