Browsing: Macarena Hernandez

Almost 36 percent of undergraduate students at Baylor are minorities, while only 12.3 percent, or 122 out of 990, of faculty members are minorities, according to Baylor Institutional Research and Testing. Despite this low percentage, the faculty minority rate is 4.7 percent, higher and has 61 more minority professors than 10 years ago according to past reports by Baylor. According to Baylor Institutional Research and Testing, female faculty rates in fall 2014 were 38.9 percent, lower than the undergraduate female composition of 58 percent.

Macarena Hernandez, professor of journalism, public relations, and new media, presented a documentary screening of “A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times,” which depicts a plagiarism scandal, Thursday evening in the Marrs-McLean Science Building.