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Brown University plans to spend $100m to improve race relations on campus Brown University plans to spend $100m to improve race relations on campus
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Brown University plans to spend $100m over the next decade, in order to address diversity and racism on the campus.Brown University plans to spend $100m over the next decade, in order to address diversity and racism on the campus.
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Brown president Christina Paxson unveiled the 19-page draft action plan on Friday, and thanked students who have called attention in recent months to issues of injustice at the Ivy League school.Brown president Christina Paxson unveiled the 19-page draft action plan on Friday, and thanked students who have called attention in recent months to issues of injustice at the Ivy League school.
The Providence Journal reported that the plan outlined steps to create a “just and inclusive campus community”. That included ways to increase Brown’s racial and ethnic diversity and add race and ethnicity to teaching and research topics. The Providence Journal reported that the plan outlined steps to create a “just and inclusive campus community”. That included ways to increase Brown’s racial and ethnic diversity and add race and ethnicity to teaching and research topics.
Earlier this month, about 35 graduate students representing several student organizations demanded Brown administrators increase efforts to improve race relations. Their statement came after a visiting Dartmouth College student was detained while attending a conference for Latino Ivy League students.Earlier this month, about 35 graduate students representing several student organizations demanded Brown administrators increase efforts to improve race relations. Their statement came after a visiting Dartmouth College student was detained while attending a conference for Latino Ivy League students.
The issue of racial prejudice on university campuses has come to national attention in recent weeks. At the University of Missouri student protests led to the resignations of president and chancellor; Princeton saw protests against programmes and buildings named for President Woodrow Wilson, over his segregationist views. The issue of racial prejudice on university campuses has come to national attention in recent weeks.
At the University of Missouri student protests led to the resignations of president and chancellor; Princeton saw protests against programmes and buildings named for President Woodrow Wilson, over his segregationist views.
At Harvard Law School, portraits of six African American professors were vandalised with black tape.At Harvard Law School, portraits of six African American professors were vandalised with black tape.
On Wednesday, students nationwide participated in a day of protests under the social media banner “#StudentBlackOut”.On Wednesday, students nationwide participated in a day of protests under the social media banner “#StudentBlackOut”.
At the University of Kansas, meanwhile, a white professor was placed on paid leave after using a racial slur during a class discussion about race.
The school told Andrea Quenette, an assistant professor of communication studies, on Friday that five people had filed a discrimination complaint against her, she told the Lawrence Journal-World.
Students began complaining about Quenette after she used the racial slur during a 12 November class for graduate students who teach undergraduate classes. The class met the day after a contentious university-wide forum on race and discrimination moderated by Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little.
Quenette, 33, said diversity in the classroom was on the syllabus, and a student asked how they could talk about race issues in their own classes. The conversation then shifted to how the university should address racial problems.
She said she pointed out that racist incidents on other campuses, including the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus, have been very visible, and used the slur when comparing the University of Kansas to the other incidents. Quenette said she could have apologized “in the moment” if anyone had responded, but no one did, so she continued the discussion.
Amy Schumacher, a first-year doctoral student who was in the class of nine white students and one black student, said most “just shut down” after Quenette used the slur. Schumacher said she believes Quenette “actively violated policies” during the discussion, hurt students’ feelings — including the one black student, who left “devastated” — and has a previous history of being unsympathetic to students.
Quenette said she hopes to secure an attorney to represent her. She also said she believes academic freedom protects her comments and that they were not discriminatory.
“I didn’t intend to offend anyone,” she said. “I didn’t intend to hurt anyone. I didn’t direct my words at any individual or group of people.”