The phrase "a qualified minority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing demographics, representation, or specific qualifications within a minority group.
Example: "The committee aims to ensure that a qualified minority is represented in the decision-making process."
Alternatives: "an eligible minority" or "a competent minority".
In an even bigger upset, in 2001 GMR, which then had no airport experience, landed a 30-year concession to develop a new airport in Hyderabad, an emerging tech hot spot near Bangalore, but only after it found a qualified minority partner, Malaysia Airports Holdings, and waited three years, until 2004, for an agreement to be signed.
You need to be part of a qualified minority.
The government has approved the appointment of four new Channel 4 board members, all of whom are white men, but vetoed the fifth candidate, understood to be a highly qualified minority ethnic woman.
Theresa May has weighed in on the government's decision to approve four white men as Channel 4 board members, but reject a highly qualified minority ethnic woman, saying that the public appointments process "is about who is right for the job".
The negative attitudes are reflected in several questionable practices, say minority faculty members, including a failure to interview qualified minority candidates, loading down a new faculty member with introductory courses, and marginalizing senior scientists.
Nonetheless, there is still a generation being lost of qualified minority students until the outreach program is perfected and until we do more to equalize high school preparations".
Minorities and women with stellar credentials do exist, so if you are an institution looking for highly qualified minority candidates, please contact me.
Turning to the program itself, Powell determined that it was not simply a goal, as the university had contended, but a racial qualification assuming that U.C.-Davis could find sixteen minimally qualified minority students, there were only 84 seats in the freshman class open to white students, whereas minorities could compete for any spot in the 100-member class.
I think thought experiments like this are helpful for suggesting an alternate hypothesis to the pipeline problem: that there are qualified minority applicants who are choosing – rationally – to invest their time and energy elsewhere.
"You have to look long and hard — it's not as easy as one would think to find highly qualified minority candidates," Mr. Knuckles said.
It should not be possible to ignore qualified minority opinions.
