Colleges need to recruit more black professors

Buffalo News ^ | 06/19/02 | SHEREE N. JOHNSON

[Phantom Lord]

I went to college in Western NY. Buffalo State College. I have many professors who happened to be black. She should have choosen her college better if the race of her teachers was this important to her, or transfered to another when she decided she needed some black teachers.

And to be quite honest, most of the black professors I had were wacko leftists who were not only idiots, but poor teachers.

[goldstategop]

<yawn Which solves the mystery of why this white man can't get hired as one. Not enough minority professors around.

[Octavius]

Colleges hire the people that apply.
k-12 jobs can be had with a degree in "education" whereas college jobs require specialization in the particular field.
The pool of education majors is much larger.

[Illbay]

After all, it's all about what you FEEL. What the h*ll's thinking got to do with it?

[Illbay]

Just to be an "instructor" in a four-year private college requires you to have a Master's. State colleges and universities typically will allow no one but Ph.D.s as regular faculty; you must have a Master's just to be an ADJUNCT instructor.

Maybe this lady needs to go back to the 'hood and wise up the younger bruthahs and sistuhs, let them know that getting an education doesn't mean you're "actin' white" or whatever they say these days.

[narby]

Colleges need to recruit more black professors

Translation: "Colleges need to recruit more liberal professors".

As if they don't have enough already.

[Tis The Time''s Plague]

I am in a great learning environment, and I have well-educated professors. However, I cannot bond with them on an ethnic level.

I had a lot of female professors, however I could not bond with them on a gender level. The issue here seems to be comfort level, rather than ethnicity. These poor darlings are in a new and strange environment and they need to be comforted. But in one class I was accused by a fellow student of creating a hositle environment becuase I kept disagreeing with everyone, including myself. The professor threw the other student out after calling him an intellectual wimp.

I hope this sheltered hot house flower learns about how to survive in strange places with strange colored people in it becuase she'll need in life.

[1Old Pro]

Fine, as long as Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams do the recruiting.

[Lysander]

May I suggest a traditionally black college to her?

[driftless]

I'm extremely dismayed whenever I read of people like this student. I'm white, but my sports hero growing up was Hank Aaron. I didn't wish that he was white or that I needed a white athlete for a role model. I imitated Aaron not some white baseball player. This student has had her mind severely twisted by the racialists in this country. As long as people of whatever ethnic origin think that they need a person of the same etnicity to be their mentors or idols, they will be lost.

[mattdono]

I agreed with a friend who said that for classes like African-American history, a minority professor would give us more to identify with.

Well, maybe on the idenification level, but if you had a leftist, homosexual who really believes that the oppression of every group in the world is the white man's fault, that would be basically the same thing. And, there are TONS of those out there, probably even at Alred University.

Entry level salaries are really not that great at the college level.

Maybe that is the reason. Maybe the black people who are educated at the level it takes to be hired at a university decided they would like to make some "real" money. So, Sheree, which would you rather have the advancement of blacks in business, where they can improve their (and their families) standard of living and possibly add to their community (presumably, a black community)? Or, would you rather have a black professor who will be holed up in a university office or class somewhere spewing the same old "we aren't free" trash? (Guessing from the piece, I would say that your need for identity politics indicates that you don't have an original thought in your head; rather it is simply filled up with the typical liberal trash that is peddled in our public school system).

However, I cannot bond with them on an ethnic level

Huh? Why don't you concentrate on the simplest of groups: Americans. Last time I checked Alfred University was in the USA, so, maybe that would be a good start, you ungrateful, little BEEAACCCTTTHHHH!

[mountaineer]

I feel deprived of knowledge because when I bring my work home with me and show it to my old African-American high school teachers, they fill in my information void by telling me their knowledge on subjects dealing with African-American history.

If she wanted to study "African-American history," why didn't she choose to attend a college that offered such coursework (taught, presumably, by a person of color)? There's a zillion such schools. Or maybe she'd just rather complain.

[mattdono]

however I could not bond with them on a gender level

Well, you could, but that is a different type of "bonding" <wink>

[tcostell]

The currently living man whose work I most admire is Thomas Sowell. With that said, most of my professors were comparative incompetents with obvious agendas. Race means nothing, ability everything.

Disband the NEA.

[mattdono]

Right on! This is a perfect example of what drifless was just saying. Thomas Sowell is one of my heros, period. I wish that I could be half as smart as he is. His recent book about his personal journey is an inspiration.

[LexBaird]

I am in a great learning environment, and I have well-educated professors. However, I cannot bond with them on an ethnic level. If there were African-American professors at Alfred, my fellow students and I would be in a better learning environment. There is no professor that I can relate to or admire within my race while attending college, and because of that, I don't work as hard as I should.

In other words, the author is a racist bigot who feels white instructors are somehow less inspiring.

The solution to her problem is not to color co-ordinate her instructors to ease her discomfort with white people. The true solution is for her to get over her bigotry and force herself to "work as hard as [she] should"

lexbaird

[jae471]

First time I've every thought of this... I never had a black prof. White American, Indian, Arab, Jew, Egyptian, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Puetro Rican, European, Left, Right, Male, Female... No Blacks.

The best was an Indian, but the worst was also an Indian.

And just in case you're wondering, I studied Computer Science at the Univ. of Maryland, and I'm finishing a second degree in Criminal Justice.

[fuente]

Hank was someone to model yourself after both on and off the field

[goodnesswins]

"I cannot bond with them on an ethnic level."

WELL....Sherree.....when you FIGURE out that ETHNICITY is NOT the KEY to LIFE.....maybe YOU'LL bond with what's IMPORTANT. Why don't you call Jesse Jackson - I'm sure HE'D like to BOND with YOU!