Colleges need to recruit more black professors

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

[driftless]

correction: et(h)nicity not etnicity.

[Scourge of God]

Just imagine if you changed the races in this whine around:

Now I'm wondering if an White professor will ever teach me a college course. My mother had White professors when she attended college in New York City. I never imagined that leaving New York City meant that I would be deprived of learning from someone from my race or ethnicity. Now I realize I took for granted the thought of always having White teachers throughout my life.

In one year, I'll be finished with my undergraduate degree without experiencing an White professor's perspective. I feel deprived of knowledge because when I bring my work home with me and show it to my old White high school teachers, they fill in my information void by telling me their knowledge on subjects dealing with White history.

Gasp! Shocked, yes Shocked am I at this horrid racism!!!!

Scourge

[Fzob]

But at the beginning of my sophomore year, I felt like I was lacking minority guidance in some classes,....

What does that even mean?

Now I'm wondering if an African-American professor will ever teach me a college course.

I doubt it, and why does it matter?

I never imagined that leaving New York City meant that I would be deprived of learning from someone from my race or ethnicity.

This person is clearly an idiot. Or has lived in a closet their entire life.

[Pharmboy]

My gawd...if I ever got this young woman's resume across my desk (and knew she wrote this whining, ill-informed drivel) she would be out the door. Not because she's black; but because she is totally focused on the wrong things. And, to some extent, that was caused by the education she received from the liberal teachers of her past--both black and white.

How sad this is for our future.

[moneyrunner]

DITTO

[moneyrunner]

"the author is a racist bigot who feels white instructors are somehow less inspiring"

Good analysis.

[FreeTally]

The entire notion that a college, or business, or sports team needs to actively "recruit" people based upon their skin color, instead of hiring those who apply, is totally absurd to me. But then again, I'm not a whiney, PC, "diversity is our greatest strength" idiot.

[FreeTally]

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

Who the heck actually "bonds" with their teachers in the first place? I could have cared less about most of my college teachers. You listen in class, take notes, and if you have a question, you ask it. I don't care what color the teacher's skin is, who he/she sleeps with or what their political persuasions are. You take the tests, and try to pass them.

This notion of "bonding" with a teacher is ludicrous. People who are this concerned about such trivial things about a teacher are the type that pretty much want everything spoon fed to them. They depend on the teacher, not themselves, so pass the class.

[Future Snake Eater]

Man, I was sitting in class the other day, and I was just thinking about this..."I wish I had more BLACK professors...that'd be really nice and diverse of my school...yeah..."

What a f**k**g joke. Try doing something about skyrocketing tuition, then be as diverse as you want with your b.s. professors of color...and people wonder why I hate college...

[Future Snake Eater]

Anyone who goes to college to confirm her ethnicity is wasting her's and the college's time.

Yeah, but the college sure loves her money, nonetheless.

[Future Snake Eater]

And just in case you're wondering, I studied Computer Science at the Univ. of Maryland ...

That's probably why. I've never even heard of a black professor in computer science.

[Future Snake Eater]

But at the beginning of my sophomore year, I felt like I was lacking minority guidance in some classes,....

What does that even mean?

I'll betcha it means she didn't get any special curves on her exams from a "sympathetic" professor of her same ethnicity. It's a practice I've heard of but never seen practiced (to my knowledge).

[mhking]

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[stainlessbanner]

However, I cannot bond with them on an ethnic level

If you want to bond, sit around the campfire and sing.
If you want a college degree, go to college and study!

[lonestar]

To find any success and feelings of personal worth in her future employment, this young woman should apply to worth directly with Mary Frances Berry at the Civil Rights Commission.

She has the proper mental attitude to be successful.

[Michael2001]

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.

Sounds like a great excuse for failure

[Anamensis]

Let's see... I had a black math instructor my freshman year... she was no more or less boring than my other math instructors.... had a black African-American Lit prof, he was great, really inspiring, didn't make whites uncomfortable... had an Indian prof teach me Shakespeare, one of the best profs I had as an undergrad... had a strangely TALL Philippina teach women's lit, she just made us read all her buddies from her Ph.D. graduating class in Creative Writing, which ticked me off to no end... all my other profs have been white, bout half and half for male/female... I've noticed no particular pattern. I guess my conclusion would be that their color has nothing to do with the quality of their teaching.

[stands2reason]

My favorite teacher of all time happened to be black---since I'm white, I guess I missed out on something---sheez, the way this girl acts you'd think we were different species or something.

[FirstFlaBn]

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.

Translation: I just got turned down by all fourteen grad schools I applied to for having lousy grades, so I have to figure out some way to pin it on Whitey.

[jae471]

Well, the only real problems I ever had with any prof was arrogance. Happened with two, one white and the other Indian. I had some problems with a Chinese woman, but that was because she barely spoke English. The Peutro Rican was animated (okay, obnoxious), but other than a pair of rather boring white guys (your stereotypical white middle-aged prof), most were pretty good at what they did (both in the classroom and in the lab/field). Decent mix of males/females outside of computer science, only two females in computer science.