Administrators: Institutions Must Continue to Push Diversity Efforts

By Autumn A. Arnett, Diverse Issues in higher Education

spite the country’s desperate desire to proclaim itself post-racial, higher education institutions have to continue to be conscious of race and proactive in their diversity efforts.

This is the message shared by experts at The Presidential Summit on the Challenges Facing Higher Education held Thursday at the George Washington University Law School.

“Look out the window, read the paper, go on the internet and tell me … how [the nation handles] race,” said current Hampden-Sydney College President and Robert Morris University President-elect Dr. Christopher Howard. “We [as a nation] still don’t have it right. You can go back and read some of the texts from 40, 50, 60 years ago and a lot of the same things are happening—we talk about Cincinnati, we talk about Ferguson, we talk about Charleston … as [President] Lincoln said it: ‘the Union is not yet perfected,’” he said.

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