History Dept.

Letter to the Editor: Diversity in the History Department

Mary Renda writes to Mount Holyoke News on behalf of the History Department: as reported in these pages last week, a group of students recently initiated a campaign to call attention to the need for a more diverse faculty here at Mount Holyoke, including in the history department.

Letter to the Editor: Diversity In Our Community

Mount Holyoke has a diversity problem.  While we score above the national average in terms of racial and ethnic diversity in our student body, students of color do not see this diversity reflected in our classrooms, and rarely see ourselves represented in the faculty that teach our classes. This problem is particularly apparent in the history department, where there is not a single black professor in the faculty of nine.