Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Carlson, Scott
• Sorrell, Michael J

Titel

Higher Ed's Reckoning With Race: A conversation about bigotry, diversity, and opportunity

Ist Teil von

• The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2020-06

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Chronicle of Higher Education

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Nexis Uni

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The event was hosted by Michael J. Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College, and Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle, and included Devin Fergus, a professor of history and Black studies at the University of Missouri at Columbia; Mildred Garcia, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities; and G. Gabrielle Starr, president of Pomona College. Sorrell: We have created a society where people have been legislated to be unlucky. Since World War II, higher education has been a pathway to upward mobility to America. [...]since the late ‘70s, 1980s, barriers have been erected to make college campuses less a site of upward mobility than a site of indebtedness. In the early 1980s, they actually talked about what impact the rising cost of college and the decline of the purchasing price of a Pell Grant would have on folks of color.