Diverse correspondent Patricia Valdata speaks with Dr. Jane Buck, the outgoing president of the American Association of University Professors, about her six years heading up the 90-year-old organization. Buck weighs in on a variety of topics, including the importance of tenure-track positions and the issue of shared governance at Black colleges.
We also have several interesting articles in our Noteworthy News section. Check out “All Jokes Aside,” in which Bill Cosby discusses the role community colleges play in breaking the cycle of poverty; New York writer Jamal Watson reports on the controversy surrounding Medgar Evers College’s Black Male Initiative, which has been called discriminatory by a local group; and Ibram Rogers covers the inaugural press conference of a new coalition called Choose Black America, whose stance on illegal immigration appears to be at odds with traditional civil rights organizations.
Hilary Hurd Anyaso
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