Racism still roils campuses.THE NUMBER OF MINORITY STUDENTS enrolling in colleges and universities has skyrocketed in the last decade, but some people haven't gotten the memo about how to live in an integrated society. In January, six football players from Guilford College Guilford College is a small, private, four-year liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina founded by the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers). Founded in 1837 as the New Garden Boarding School, its name was changed to Guilford College in 1888 when the academic , a Quaker institution in Greensboro, N.C., were charged with misdemeanor assault and five of them with ethnic intimidation based on complaints filed by three Palestinian students after a fight on campus. At Clemson University Clemson University, at Clemson, S.C.; coeducational; land-grant; state supported; opened in 1893 as a college, gained university status in 1964. The university includes programs in textile and computer research, wildlife biology, and aquaculture and maintains (S.C.), President Jim Barker launched an investigation and helped organize a campus meeting after a gang-themed student party drew criticism for being racially insensitive (one student attended the party wearing blackface). Institutions from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific to the University of Texas at Austin “University of Texas” redirects here. For other system schools, see University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas have also been the site of racially insensitive events. These gatherings--such as parties with "gangsta Noun 1. gangsta - (Black English) a member of a youth gang AAVE, African American English, African American Vernacular English, Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics - a nonstandard form of American English " themes or anti-Hispanic undertones--are appearing at a time when racial sensitivity should be at an all-time high. The most recent "Minorities in Higher Education" status report from the American Council in Education found that total minority enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities rose by 50.7 percent between 1993 and 2003. As of 2003, students of color made up 27.8 percent of the nearly 17 million students on America's college campuses, up from 21.8 percent in 1993. Reem Rahman, a student at UIUC UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , has asked her university's administration to amend the student code to address hate crimes; to provide a monthly public report detailing hate crimes and other acts of violence on campus; to have a plan to recruit and retain tenure-track faculty, staff, and administrators from marginalized populations; and to recruit and retain students from marginalized populations. "Students and campus administrators should take responsibility for racist behavior and implement policies that discourage it," says Iara Peng, director of Young People For, an organization that supports youth activism. "Universities should promote increased diversity education training on campuses and preserve affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. policies." |
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