Higher ed that looks like us
The truth can be uncomfortable, especially in the parochial world of higher education. Bruce Shepard, the president of Western Washington University, provoked a debate that鈥檚 kindled predictable blowback from right-wing media. In his January blog, Shepard echoed the need for diversity.
鈥淚n the decades ahead, should we be as white as we are today, we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or, become a sad shadow of our current self,鈥 he writes.