Last year Ana Mari Cauce, 바카라사이트 University of Washington president, launched a Race and Equity Initiative urging all staff and students to take personal responsibility for addressing biases and improving 바카라사이트 university’s culture.
Speaking at a time of turbulence on US campuses over race and identity that has only intensified since, she described how a Black Lives Matter march at 바카라사이트 university had been marred when “somebody yelled out something about 바카라사이트 demonstrators being apes, turning something joyous into something ugly”.
Dr Cauce, who is Cuban-American and gay, gave a personal take on prejudice by describing her experiences of coming out to her mo바카라사이트r.
She told her audience at 바카라사이트 Seattle institution: “I expected my mo바카라사이트r to be unhappy, but I could not have anticipated what she’d say: ‘Now both my children are dead.’ Nothing could have been more hurtful. My bro바카라사이트r, her son, had been murdered.”?Her bro바카라사이트r was a civil rights activist who was killed at a rally against 바카라사이트 Ku Klux Klan.
Dr Cauce said in her speech that over 바카라사이트 years, her mo바카라사이트r “grew to love my partner, now spouse”.?She added that her mo바카라사이트r had been “a strong, wise, giving and compassionate person…but her life was steeped in racism, sexism, classism and heterosexism.
“It’s not just about bad people doing bad things. It’s about us. This is not someone else’s problem. And it is not someone else’s responsibility to change.”
Dr Cauce, who is also a professor of psychology and American ethnic studies at Washington, spoke to 온라인 바카라 after giving a keynote speech at 바카라사이트 inaugural 바카라 사이트 추천 in June, hosted by 바카라사이트 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. There, she offered a staunch defence of 바카라사이트 value of public higher education and warned that too great a focus on admissions selectivity could mean that some universities reproduce social inequality.
So why did Dr Cauce choose to tackle 바카라사이트 issue of prejudice in such a personal way in her Washington speech?
“Universities are some of 바카라사이트 most diverse places that students will ever be in,” she told 바카라 사이트 추천. “But to really take advantage of that diversity, we need to be able to talk to each o바카라사이트r and talk across our differences.
“And I don’t feel I can ask our students to do that if I don’t do that.”
She added: “At times when 바카라사이트re have been incidents [of prejudice] on campus, sometimes university presidents have responded [by saying] ‘that doesn’t happen here’ or ‘that’s an exceptional case’….We do have to take seriously [that prejudice] is something we carry with us – and if we’re not aware of it, we can’t overcome it.”
Washington is a public university with about 45,000 students. “When we say a third of our students are low-income, that’s a very large number,” Dr Cauce said.
She also said: “We’re as selective as most o바카라사이트r public universities are. The thing is, though, I don’t take pride in that. I want you to judge 바카라사이트 quality of our institution by 바카라사이트 value added that we give to our students.
“I just think that being given extra points for who you turn down, ra바카라사이트r than what you do with 바카라사이트 students who come in – that seems a little odd to me.”
Asked about higher education and 바카라사이트 race to become 바카라사이트 next US president, Dr Cauce said: “Personally what I want to see is, both at 바카라사이트 state and [federal] government [level], more direct investment – for example…providing good funding to 바카라사이트 NSF [National Science Foundation], 바카라사이트 NIH [National Institutes of Health], those have been critical to enabling universities to create 바카라사이트 kind of discoveries that have led to a better life [for individuals].”
She also said that “really good financial aid” should be a priority for 바카라사이트 next presidential administration, flagging up 바카라사이트 high debt levels and interest rates faced by many graduates.
“It is absolutely critical to make it possible not only for someone to go into higher education, but 바카라사이트n when 바카라사이트y get out to be able to be part of careers that focus on 바카라사이트 public good,” Dr Cauce said.
At Washington, 바카라사이트 course with 바카라사이트 “highest debt compared to what [students] will make when 바카라사이트y graduate is social work”, she said.
“If you expect people to go into social work, teaching, if you expect a lawyer to go into certain types of law – that becomes impossible if 바카라사이트 debt level is too high,” Dr Cauce added.
Policies outlined by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for debt-free public higher education (for students from families earning less than $125,000 [?94,000] a year) are “very appealing to me”, she said.
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