The events of 2020, including the pandemic which highlighted the extent of health disparities in the United States, combined with the Black Lives Matter protests, have focused public attention on the systemic inequities that continue to afflict our nation. Publicly available data from the National Center for Education Statistics show that our discipline of neuroscience shows the same types of disparities, particularly for African-American students. I have drawn on data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Survey of U.S. colleges and universities to show that while the number of graduates from neuroscience undergraduate and graduate degree programs has grown dramatically in this century, only a small percentage of those graduates are African American, and the numbers are growing very slowly. I also present data on the neuroscience PhD program at my institution, Delaware State University, the only Historically Black University in the United States to offer a PhD in neuroscience. Because a high percentage of our students and graduates are African American, our small, young program has the potential for great impact in diversifying our discipline of neuroscience. While elite colleges and research-intensive universities have been engaged for decades in efforts to increase diversity in their academic programs, change is slow, and large inequities remain. With Delaware State University's neuroscience PhD program as an example, I hope to convince readers that it is time for our nation to recognize the institutions that are best positioned to serve students from communities of color, and direct resources to support their growth and success.

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神经科学教育的多样性：来自历史上黑人机构的视角

2020 年发生的事件，包括突显美国健康差距程度的大流行，再加上“黑人生命也是命”抗议活动，使公众关注继续困扰我们国家的系统性不平等问题。国家教育统计中心的公开数据显示，我们的神经科学学科也存在同样类型的差异，特别是对于非裔美国学生而言。我利用美国高校综合高等教育数据调查的数据表明，虽然本世纪神经科学本科和研究生学位课程的毕业生数量急剧增长，但其中只有一小部分毕业生是非裔美国人，而且数字增长非常缓慢。我还提供了我所在机构特拉华州立大学神经科学博士项目的数据，该大学是美国唯一一所提供神经科学博士学位的历史上黑人大学。由于我们的学生和毕业生中有很大一部分是非裔美国人，因此我们的小型年轻项目有可能对神经科学学科的多元化产生巨大影响。尽管精英学院和研究密集型大学几十年来一直致力于增加学术项目的多样性，但变化缓慢，而且仍然存在巨大的不平等。以特拉华州立大学的神经科学博士项目为例，我希望让读者相信，我们的国家现在应该认识到最有能力为有色人种社区的学生提供服务的机构，并引导资源来支持他们的成长和成功。