Political Quotes

“academia is not immune to discrimination. A study of faculty hiring practices found that once a hiring goal was met, departments would stop seeking out people of color, pulling their ads from relevant publications, despite the number of vacancies that subsequently arose. People of color, and in particular women of color, remain clustered on the lower tier of professorship as assistant professors and nontenure track lecturers. In 1989, for example, a study showed that 30 percent of all faculty members were women, 26 percent were white, with women of color making up about 4 percent. Without affirmative action, the precarious position of women of color in higher education is seriously threatened. As in most States across the country in higher education, it is the perception or fear, rather than the reality of loss of which make opportunities. And I think that is something we must deal with, because that is what many people talk about today. Even though more African-American, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans students have enrolled in higher education, whites still constitute 75 percent of the student body nationwide, earn 88 percent of the Ph.D.'s awarded to American citizens, are 87 percent of college administrators, hold 87 percent of full-time faculty positions.”