A lack of diversity and instances of blatant racism on college campuses have both recently garnered mass media attention. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Amherstand Occidental are just a few schools that have had protests, sit-ins, walk-outs and demonstrations, with Claremont McKenna and University of Missouri even witnessing a collective three staff resignations. These incidents have sparked campus conversations as well as initiatives from the universities to promote diversity. Recently, Yale, Brown and NYU have made headlines for their efforts by committing a significant increase in funds for a diverse faculty as well as more on-campus resources.
Yale: ‘Diversity must reach across the whole of Yale’
On the same day Mizzou’s president resigned, Yale students participated in a “March of Resilience” to call attention to their school’s similar struggles with diversity, including one incident at a fraternity party where brothers said only white girls could enter.
