Shirley McBay

Shirley McBay (May 4, 1935 – November 27, 2021) was an American mathematician who was the founder and president of the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, a nonprofit dedicated to improving minority education. She was the dean for student affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1980 to 1990. She was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (UGA) (1966, mathematics) Quotes In the search for knowledge in science and engineering, the worst intellectual crime one can commit is to prejudice one’s results, to prejudge how something will turn out. However, this is precisely what we are doing when we fail—from elementary school to graduate school—to encourage women and minorities to enter the fields of science and engineering. Shirley McBay speaking to Congress in 1987. Educational opportunities for most minority youth, and hence their educational attainments, lag behind the chances, choices and performance of the nonminority I enjoyed it immensely was never short on confidence. I frequently compelled individuals and groups to confront their own attitudes, behavior, and personal history. External links Category:1935 births Category:2021 deaths Category:American nonprofit chief executives Category:American women nonprofit executives Category:Spelman College faculty Category:20th-century American mathematicians Category:University of Georgia alumni Category:Atlanta University alumni Category:Paine College alumni Category:American women chief executives Category:21st-century American mathematicians Category:21st-century American women Category:People from Bainbridge, Georgia