Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is less unity among Black students today, Clark said. "When I was a [freshperson in 1977], there seemed to be a greater sense of unity among the Black students," he says. Stressing that he is "not an isolationist," he noted, however, that the campus is more fragmented now. "The Black students don't seem to be connected," he said...
Jackson, who identified herself as upper-middle class, also commented on this trend toward higher-income Black students. "Oh, sure, and that's why Harvard admitted me. They didn't have to take a risk on me...We're the least risky of the candidates that they admit," she said...
...Black students also lack role models because of a longstanding dearth of minority faculty members. Black student protestors in 1969 demanded more Black faculty members, and students protested the same problem as recently as yesterday. The problem is a national one, in part because a disproportionately small number of Black students enter Ph.D. programs...
...alumni argued that Harvard could help solve the problem by encouraging more Black undergraduates to go into higher education and by making more of an effort to hire Blacks for junior and senior faculty posts...
Many attribute the lack of Black junior faculty members to search committee members' failure to look beyond traditionally white schools for young academics. These critics say that white professors ask colleagues at other schools, who are generally white also, for recommendations, and do not look elsewhere. The problem of minority hiring is self-perpetuating...