Black Faculty: A Minority of One

Black Faculty: A Minority of One

The College hired its first black faculty member in 1973. 10 years later, there is still only one black faculty member part at Middlebury, Richard Davis, the Dean of the Chinese and Japanese Schools and Visiting Assistant Professor of History. Apparently, the biggest challenge in hiring black faculty is the fact that there is a "total lack of black communities in the area."

Volume 77, Number 11

Mike Millis
Ilene Lovesky

The Campus

1/21/1983

Nicholas Clifford- Vice President for Academic Affairs
Richard Davis- Visiting Assistant Professor of History

"Clifford, who requires that one out of every four applicants brought to him by department chairmen be a minority of a woman. Clifford said that the requirement exists 'not because we insist they hire a woman or a minority, but because we want them to keep it in mind.'"