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Professors: Higher Education’s Change Agents

by Black Issues , January 2, 2003

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I call your attention to Kendra Hamilton's interview with Dr. John Casteen, president of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Under Casteen, the university enjoys 77 percent four-year and 83 percent six-year Black student graduation rates, which are the best among public colleges in America. Yet, these students and others throughout the nation still contend with racist incidents. Casteen's response is both instructive and insightful.

Given the persistence of racism in American society and on our campuses, we can be sure that our featured scholars got at least a taste of it. Each of them had to survive and even thrive at the undergraduate level in order to be where they are today. And you can be sure that somewhere along the line they had a professor that made the difference.

Now it is their turn and their time to reciprocate.

 

Frank L. Matthews
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief



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