“The Fuqua School of Business celebrated 30 years of minority recruitment in 2012.”


Much of the focus on the 50 years of black students at Duke has focused on the undergraduate experience and on the early years of Duke’s integration. The Fuqua School of Business celebrated 30 years of minority recruitment in 2012. It was also the 30th year of the Black MBA organization, which blended into the Black/Latino MBA organization. This group was founded by black MBA students in 1982 after there were only 3 black students enrolled in a class of more than 180 in 1981.

Lionell Parker, Fuqua ‘83