If students protesting nationwide want to see more diversity, they should start by looking at their liberal professors and college presidents.
The higher education industry — which preaches about inclusion and diversity — is among the least diverse professions in the country.
According to a 2013 Nation Center for Education Statistics study, out of 1.5 million faculty in America, only 6 percent were black. Among full-time professors, only 4 percent were black.
Today, the Washington Post asks, “It’s 2015. Where are all the black college faculty?”
While 11 percent of the workforce and 14 percent of the population are black, most colleges in the cited study and article have low single digit representation of black professors on campus.
Out of more than 1,500 faculty at Harvard, only 56 are black; the University of Virginia has 3.1 percent black faculty, a lower number than a decade ago; Yale has less than 3% black faculty; Mizzou is in the low single digits.
The number of black Ph.D. holders has been rapidly expanding, but universities are not hiring them.
96% of black tenured faculty nationwide are at HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). When you take out HBCUs, fewer than 30 of 3,000 college and university presidents are black.
The same liberal academics who accuse others of racism have racial disparities in their own hiring processes. Many in academia lobby for affirmative action in their admission processes, but it looks like they could use some affirmative action in their own hiring processes.
It begs the question: Are liberal universities “safe spaces” for blacks to teach and participate in the higher education process?
