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MINORI E P O R T N 30 numbers are unacceptably low, and they have instituted initia- tives designed to bring more diversity into their programs. More than a dozen organizations promote minorities in ot many minorities pursue business degrees. Cur rently, African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans enrolled in business school make up slightly more than 17 percent in the undergraduate ranks, and eight percent for MBA programs. For many business schools, those by Sharon Shinn business, and many of them can be found under the umbrel- la of the Diversity Pipeline Alliance. Members of the alliance include The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), KPMG Foundation, The PhD Project, LEAD Inc., National Black MBA Association, National Society for Hispanic MBAs, the Robert A. Toigo Foundation, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, Management Leadership For Tomorrow, and Citigroup Foundation. The Web site, at www.diversitypipeline.org, includes links to all the member organizations as well as information specifically targeted to high school students, undergraduates, and professionals. "Our objective is to try to harness the collective energy of these various organizations," says Bernie Milano, president of the KPMG Foundation in Montvale, New Jersey, and founder of the PhD Project. "All of them are successful at what they do, but most are sub-optimized in their results because they don't have the funds to do full-scale national marketing or to install the technology to track the individu- als they contact." BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2003