{"id":173,"date":"2016-06-26T04:03:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=173"},"modified":"2016-06-26T04:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T04:03:59","slug":"vassar-focus-diversity-affordability-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/06\/26\/vassar-focus-diversity-affordability-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"At Vassar, a Focus on Diversity and Affordability in Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">When Catharine Bond Hill walked the campus of Williams College as an undergraduate in the mid-1970s, the \u201cwhiteness\u201d of the campus was apparent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cIt was certainly clear that there weren\u2019t a lot of students of color there,\u201d said Ms. Hill, who graduated from Williams, a liberal arts college in Williamstown, Mass., in 1976.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cI was well aware that I was with other kids who had a fairly privileged upbringing,\u201d she said. \u201cI do remember running into kids on the Williams campus back then who didn\u2019t have a car parked in the lot; but that was unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/23\/education\/at-vassar-a-focus-on-diversity-and-affordability-in-higher-education.html?_r=0\">Read the entire post here. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Catharine Bond Hill walked the campus of Williams College as an undergraduate in the mid-1970s, the \u201cwhiteness\u201d of the campus was apparent. \u201cIt was certainly clear that there weren\u2019t a lot of students of color there,\u201d said Ms. Hill, who graduated from Williams, a liberal arts college in Williamstown, Mass., in 1976. \u201cI was&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/06\/26\/vassar-focus-diversity-affordability-higher-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}