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Claremont McKenna College Dean Resigns After Racial Bias Protests Rock Campus
Students at a “safe space” at Claremont McKenna College in California shut down an Asian woman who was describing racial harassment by a black man, booing her when she declared, “black people can be racist”.
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Dean of Students at Claremont McKenna College, Mary Spellman, resigned today following protests and hunger strikes by students who say they have been culturally marginalized by the administration’s policies and other students.
Claremont-McKenna student protesters had demanded her resignation amid complaints that her office wasn’t doing enough to deal with the concerns of students of color and others who felt marginalized.
Despite the college president’s pledge to address the concerns, students said they’ll remain skeptical until they see that steps are being actually taken.
In an open letter to the school published November 11 on Medium, student Taylor Lemmons announced the start of a hunger strike aimed at triggering Spellman’s resignation.
Spellman’s resignation came days after the University of Missouri’s president and chancellor stepped down amid student protests over alleged racial discrimination.
The campus was “roiled” by protests this week, leading to Spellman’s resignation this afternoon.
Campus demonstration have also been noted at Yale and Ithaca College.
There was “continual neglect” of diversity issues on campus, student Lisette Espinosa said last month in an op-ed article she wrote for the student newspaper.
As college students across the United States protested racial bias on campus on Thursday, the dean of a prestigious Los Angeles-area liberal arts college resigned under pressure, the school said. “And we’re exhausted of it”, Garcelon said. I do so with sadness beyond words, because these almost six years have been the most rewarding and fulfilling of my life, but also with the conviction that it is the right thing to do for the school and the students I care about so deeply. Brackmann has also since resigned from her position.
Wednesday night, CMC president Hiram E. Chodosh released a letter to students and the public announcing the creation of a new position on diversity and inclusion within Student Affairs.
“We will utilize the Athenaeum to build a series of regularly scheduled, ongoing participatory programs to bring students, faculty, and staff together for serious discussions about issues that affect our campus community and society more broadly”, he wrote.
She wrote, in part: “To all who have been so supportive, please know how sorry I am if my decision disappoints you”.
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Chodosh said the university is working on creating a permanent “safe space” for students, with plans being finalized by spring. “I support their right to speak out forcefully, and want their voices to be heard”.