“…However, they found that this was not the case. In fact, candidates of color reported that they did not find themselves in "bidding wars" (Bronstein, Rothblum, & Solomon, 1993;Carter & O'Brien, 1993;Collins, 1990;Collins & Johnson, 1990;Cross, 1994;De la Luz Reyes & Halcon, 1991;Delgado, Stefancic, & Lindsley, 2000). In a study, examining the faculty search experiences of scholars who recently earned doctorates with funding from three prestigious fellowship programs, Smith, Wolf, and Busenberg (1996) found that the scholars of color were not highly sought after, and that the bidding wars were vastly overstated.…”