Even in diversity’s nascency, efforts by colleges to widen faculty hiring were accompanied by conflict. “Some resentment is already evident among black persons over the relatively rapid progress being made by women on the campuses,” The Chronicle reported. A black professor of higher education at Harvard put it bluntly: “Minority groups, particularly blacks, deserve better than hostility or aggressive competition from other segments of society—especially indefatigably persistent and outraged middle-class white women.”
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