“Until we deal with the structural power centers in the university—that’s the faculty who make the decisions on what courses are offered, who will get hired—as long as there is no diversity there, there’s not going to be a lot of black folks,” James Blake, president of the Borough of Manhattan Community College Black Faculty and Staff Association, testified at a Nov. 20 City Council hearing on diversity at the City University of New York.
About 40 percent of CUNY faculty are non-white, according to the Office of Recruitment and Diversity. The make-up of Professors and other instructors doesn’t match the public-university system’s student body, which is almost a quarter black and 30 percent Hispanic.
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