Administration pays lip service to diversity

Administration pays lip service to diversity

Op-ed voices that the administration has been inefficient and inactive in regard to the demands made by the AAA and Alianza. The Martin Luther King Report (1969), the Twilight Report (1982), and the Report to Enhance the Experience of African-American and Hispanic-American Students (1991) were apparently full of the College's promises that had been "neglected and forgotten". Op-ed then refers to the College's potential appointment of Charles M. Burdick as representative for students of color to the president, who the authors deemed "completely unqualified", due to his lack of "formal education in [African-American and Latinx] cultures or history".

Volume 90, Number 20

AAA
Alianza
Middlebury Asian Students Organization

The Campus

4/30/1992

Charles M. Burdick '63

"The College appears to have the audacity to mislead and misinform both Mr. Burdick and the students. We have all become victims of the administration's insensitivity and inaction."

AUTHORS' DEMANDS:
"The dire need for recruitment and retention of students of color, the diversification of the academic curriculum to include issues pertaining to African-American, Asian- American, and Latino culture, the dearth of faculty and administrative members specifically qualified to represent and interact with students of color, the administrational and financial support of the Middlebury College Bi-Cultural Living and Learning Center, the paucity of multicultural faculty role models available to students of color."