Episode 43: Prof. Marlene Daut on “Becoming Full Professor While Black”

07/13/20 • -1 min

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In the United States, just 6% of college faculty members are Black. It’s a really tough career pathway for anyone, but as we’ll learn from my guest today, there are so many additional hurdles to clear if you are Black. Marlene Daut is Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Virginia, is the author of many books and articles about Haiti as well as a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education where she shares her own tenure-track truth called “Becoming Full Professor While Black.”

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Episode 42: Celeste Suris Rosselli and DJ Meehan on College Access in Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico is subject to a number of unique barriers to accessing college whether they leave the island or stay. These barriers simply don’t exist for any other US state or territory and are a direct result of its colonial relationship with the United States. It’s an issue close to my own heart and something that I’m really glad to try to emphasize in our national debate about college access along with my guests today, longtime college access professionals and current college counselors in Puerto Rico, Celeste Suris-Rosselli and DJ Meehan.

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If you want to join our brand-spankin’ new NACAC SIG dedicated to college access in Puerto Rico, here’s an interest form you can fill out. You don’t have to be a NACAC member to join the SIG.

Below are some articles and things mentioned in the episode that are worth reviewing to build a little context for this conversation.

In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college (Hechinger Report)

Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico’s College Admissions Process (Roberto Jimenez)

Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló scandal timeline (CNN)

Bad Bunny on Jimmy Fallon

Julia Kelleher arrested for fraud (CBS News)

Julia Kelleher defends her tenure in Puerto Rico (Chalkbeat)

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Episode 44: Ron Lieber on the Price of College

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Ron Lieber recently completed writing a book called “The Price You Pay for College,” and if you’re interested enough in this stuff such that you’re listening to this, then you should read this book. He was kind enough to check out this show and he says it was actually pretty helpful to him in terms of podcasts that taught him a thing or two.

You can buy Ron’s book from his local bookstore here and even choose a message for him to include! www.communitybookstore.net/lieber

Here’s some data on the pitiful value of a Pell Grant over time, and President Biden has committed to change it, albeit not by much. His budget proposal is clear about the kinds of good things it would do for higher ed, including the Pell increase, and a boost in funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.

MUSIC
The Prune, Arnie and His Soul Brothers (Ron’s dad’s band!)
I Can’t Go For That – 2 Chainz
Is It Always Binary – Soulwax

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