[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?

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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!