Comments on: Colleges Do Not Do Enough to Protect Students of Color

By: ricky

ricky — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 04:43:27 +0000

Hey, I think this post is really good and interesting. I too think that microaggressions go by unnoticed and not talked about too much and believe that colleges need to shift from protecting faculty to protecting students. Maybe universities can have a more rigorous implicit bias training for their faculty.

By: Ibrahim Sidibeh

Ibrahim Sidibeh — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:24:35 +0000

I really liked your blog post and your use of anecdotes. To answer your question, its more like how do we get college’s to care about the safety and well-being of students of color. A lot more events have brought this reality to light, but colleges, especially colleges funded by and supported by White individuals, would tend to see people of color as just diversity statistics to fill their quota. I would like to think that putting people of color into positions at these colleges in order to make administrative changes and place power in the students of color’s hands.

By: Piper

Piper — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 01:57:09 +0000

I really enjoyed your quoting of the article by Sue in how if people don’t know what microaggressions are they don’t know how to react or that a reaction is necessary. I think with your proposed solutions training on microaggressions in colleges can be beneficial. If all students on a campus have training and know about microaggressions the student body is able to defend peers and call out microaggressions against professors (or other peers). I also really enjoyed your mention of amending faculty code of conduct to stop professors from being able to “say what ever they want” and make them held accountable for their actions. Colleges are for the students education and professors should not be changing the students success in a class based on microaggressions.

By: Kaylin

Kaylin — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:03:20 +0000

One key aspect that you mentioned in your post is the lack of knowledge/tools to address microaggressions which I think was important to share. It’s vital that students and faculty both receive training to recognize and address these issues when they occur. I like the idea of a comprehensive approach to this issue where education on microaggressions can help prevent them and empower others to respond if they occur.

I am also really fond of the idea of amending the faculty code of conduct to explicitly include some policies about microaggressions. Having it there as a cushion for other with types out consequences would be helpful.

Great blog post.