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Tag: Dr. Menah Pratt-Clarke
COVID-19
How Universities Can Recruit and Retain Diverse Faculty During the Pandemic
As universities across the country consider hiring freezes, how can they continue to recruit and retain diverse faculty amid the coronavirus?
April 22, 2020
Women
Education in Spite of It All: A Black Woman’s Journey
My mother, Dr. Mildred Pratt, died in 2012. I think about her often. She was one of the first-generation of Black women to become a full professor at a predominantly White institution. When she became a full professor in the 1970s, Black women represented 1 percent of all full professors. As of 2016, Black women, like me, represent 2 percent of all full professors. In fact, out of all the full-time faculty in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, Black women only represent 3 percent of all faculty. We need more.
January 15, 2019
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