This article summarizes a variety of issues in graduate school recruitment and retention, including campus and program climate, admissions criteria, national trends in cultural diversity, and the lack of research on diversity in university programs in speech-language pathology. The rapid increase in diversity nationally, combined with sharp increases in states with traditionally low populations of specific cultural groups, indicates that recent graduates from speech-language pathology programs in all regions of the country will face far more diverse populations during their professional careers.
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