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I've taught @CUBoulder since 2001 but I really didn't think much about diversity until I starting teaching sports governance @CUBuffs Athletics in 2014
I moved from teaching almost exclusively white kids to classes that actually looked like America
That woke me up
Some data...
At @CUBoulder Arts & Sciences (my campus home) we had 16,235 full-time undergrad students in Fall 2019
Of those, 463 (3.0%) were African American
% from 2018 to 2019 dropped ~6%
My program @CUBoulderENVS (Environmental Studies) is not diverse
We have 792 full-time undergrads
7 (0.9%) are African-American
None in our freshmen class
At @CUBoulder we have 3,538 total "academic" staff
Of those, 46 (1.3%) are African American
In 2009 it was 1.4%
These data are just embarrassing & wrong
The university Covid response risks making them worse (not just on my campus)
We have got to do better
Going from ENVS-->Athletics-->ENVS helped wake me up
We need to do better & I am committed to it
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PS. Props to @CUBoulder for making such data readily available and visualized: colorado.edu/oda/
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