The first of six reports, called “Baseline on Belonging,” shows significant disparities in the progress of minorities toward licensure and an apparent bias against those who are older. The just-released report, produced by a partnership of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) intends to identify barriers to licensure for women and minority candidates. This report focused on the Architectural Experience Program (AXP) where architecture graduates gain structured experience in firms.
It found the percentage of diverse candidates slowly increasing among those who completed the program in 2019. More white men and women finished the AXP (63 percent) than minorities but that is only slightly higher than non-Hispanic whites in the general population (60 percent). Asians, accounted for 17 percent of completions, considerably overshooting their numbers in the population (6 percent). Hispanic participants were 13 percent, (compared to 19 percent), while African Americans remained poorly represented at 3 percent versus 13 percent of the general population. The numbers of Latino and Asian candidates are the most rapidly growing in this group.
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