Last week The Flat Hat reported the allegations of Ely Dorsey, an official of the local NAACP and a visiting professor, that William and Mary’s hiring practices are racially motivated and that the College is not committed to its Affirmative Action…
Vice President of the Faculty Assembly Cathy Forestell presented a survey from 2015 during a September Board of Visitors meeting. The survey showed that faculty of color report discrimination at higher rates than colleagues.
“Indeed, the sense of history and tradition, which is so alive at the College, sometimes excludes black students, who comprise about 4 percent of the total student population.”
When black students were finally admitted to the College on a…