WASHINGTON \u2014 Though the discourse of diversity on campus has been subsumed by a \u201cbigger political landscape\u201d as of late, America\u2019s colleges and universities must still fight to make the nation\u2019s professoriate more reflective of the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n
That was one of the key arguments that UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski III made Tuesday as he spoke to attendees at the annual conference of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, or NADOHE.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want you to keep in mind that the reason we\u2019re doing this work is not to give a person of color a job,\u201d Hrabowski said during the keynote speech at the conference as he lamented how the professoriate is 85 percent White and not reflective of American society.<\/p>\n
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