This image doesn’t even begin to do justice to the amount of people who have showed up to this Town Hall cc: /nmScnpdJA5 Dumpson also appeared with members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Capitol Hill and held a town hall that drew hundreds of attendees to discuss how the university could better respond to hate-motivated incidents. Dumpson, saying the noose incident was a “cowardly and despicable act” that had “created for this campus a period of great difficulty and great distress,” according to WAMU-FM, American’s radio station. (Neil) Kerwin, the university’s president, spoke on Thursday at a news conference with Ms. Please retweet & resist /OFUMuQAG5oĬornelius M. Your silences will not protect you.” Here are a list of demands. Several students said they were frustrated with what they considered to be a sluggish response from administrators to the discovery of the nooses.Ī handful of student organizations issued a separate, longer list of demands to administrators after that protest.
Dozens of students walked out of the event after about 45 minutes and marched to the financial-aid office, where they filled out forms to withdraw from the university in protest - though they didn’t sign them. University officials organized a town hall on Tuesday in response to the incident. Some had the letters “AKA” written on them - a reference to Alpha Kappa Alpha, a traditionally black sorority to which Ms. The same day, several bananas in the shape of nooses were found here. Dumpson officially assumed the role of president on Monday. students are staging an occupation after racist incident, some risking arrest. Students’ anger reached a peak on Friday, when dozens of them shut down a traffic tunnel in the middle of the campus, saying they wouldn’t leave until American officials agreed to meet their three demands.Īmerican U. American campus police were dispatched late Thursday to protect the student leader. One of them, Taylor Dumpson - the first black woman to be elected as American’s student body president - has faced online threats from a prominent white supremacist.Īndrew Anglin, founder of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, wrote a post on social media encouraging his followers to “troll” Ms.
It’s been a difficult week here at American University for students of color, who have been taking finals and simultaneously organizing protests and risking arrest as racial tensions have swelled. shut down traffic in a campus thoroughfare on Friday to protest what they perceived as a sluggish response by administrators to a racist incident earlier in the week.
were white, 27% were Latino, 15% were Black and 5% were Asian American. Compare that with the latest available comparable NCES student data from 2018-2019: 47% of all public elementary and secondary school students in the U.S.Fewer than one in 10 teachers was Black (7%), Hispanic (9%) or Asian American (2%).public school teachers identified as white, non-Hispanic, according to a Pew Research Center analysis released late last year, based on data from the 2017-18 school year, the latest compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Recruitment is only part of the problem experts tell Axios teachers of color are leaving the profession faster than their white counterparts.īy the numbers: 79% of U.S.Why it matters: The disparities are especially acute between Hispanic students and teachers, and in schools with 90% or higher non-white student populations. The nation’s 6.6 million teacher workforce has grown more racially and ethnically diverse over the past three decades - but not nearly fast enough to keep pace with a student population that’s nearing majority-minority in public schools, two new reports show.
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