"... announcing Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates as new faculty.... Long-standing concerns over the way the school treats survivors of sexual assault were put on display when College of Fine Arts dean and actress Phylicia Rashad — another recent high-profile hire — shared her support for 'The Cosby Show' co-star Bill Cosby after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his sexual assault conviction.... The backlash — from students and others outside the Howard community — was swift. The issue was personal for Aliya J’mari, a 2016 graduate who said she had trouble getting help from school officials when a professor physically assaulted her during her senior year.... 'I just felt a little sad for the students that are at Howard now that are going to be up under her leadership,' J’mari said...."
Writes Lauren Lumpkin in "Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates appointments signal new era for Howard University/The recent growth at Howard University comes a few years after students waged a nine-day protest over conditions at the school and called for their president’s resignation" (WaPo).
The highest-rated comment over there is: "As long as Howard continues to focus on celebrity over intellect, and to foster the concept of racial segregation for its student body, the university is doomed to a destiny of mediocrity. As proof, take a look at the SAT scores of incoming freshman at Howard versus the Ivy League schools — no comparison."
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Lloyd writes:
"I taught African-American political thought more than once. There were truly giants, and great texts, to work with. Booker T. Washington, DuBois, Douglass, etc. For the most sobering thing about the 2020 street protests was the lack of African-American leadership that is likely to impress anybody at all, anywhere."
Nancy writes:
"And they eliminated their Classics Department this year. Way to go!"
Scott writes:
""ascended to the vice presidency"
"I know I'm a crazy libertarian, but that is twisted. Ascended!"
Bart writes:
"Perhaps the ultimate tragedy is that Howard's increasingly-rapid tumble into utter mediocrity, or worse, comes after President Trump guaranteed them (and other such schools) relatively-stable longer-term federal funding.
"Talk about squandering genuine benefits for a short-term hit. Unsurprising, however."
Michelle writes:
"I think it's pathetic that Howard University refers to Kamala Harris as "one of its alumna." That should be "alumnae." I wonder whether commenter Nancy was alluding to that? A university newly shorn of its Classics department probably doesn't much care what happens to Latin words under its purview."
It's WaPo, not Howard that's responsible for that error.
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