Pitzer College Black Student Union Address:

How Pitzer can support the success of their Black students


Administrative Response

President Melvin L. Oliver’s acknowledgment and initial response to the Pitzer College Black Student Union Address, October 6, 2020: https://www.pitzer.edu/president/mid-semester-updates/#bsu

President Melvin L. Oliver’s response to the Pitzer College Black Student Union Address, October 19, 2020: https://www.pitzer.edu/president/response-to-the-pitzer-college-black-student-union-address/


Works Cited

ACE Board of Directors. On the Importance of Diversity in Higher Education. American Council on Education, www.acenet.edu/Documents/BoardDiversityStatement-June2012.pdf.

Flaherty, Colleen. Study: Concept of Faculty Fit in Hiring Is Vague and Potentially Detrimental to Diversity Efforts , 14 July 2020, www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/07/14/study-concept-faculty-fit-hiring-vague-and-potentially-detrimental-diversity-efforts.

GREGOR AISCH, LARRY BUCHANAN. “Economic Diversity and Student Outcomes at Pitzer.” The New York Times , The New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017, www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/pitzer-college.

Haskins, Julia. “Campus Sexual Violence: Working to End It Together: CDC Strategies Benefit Schools, Students.” The Nation’s Health , American Public Health Association, 1 Apr. 2018, thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/48/2/S1.1.

Ochoa, Gilda L., and Pineda, Daniela. “Deconstructing Power, Privilege, and Silence in the Classroom.” Radical History Review, Duke University Press, 1 Jan. 2008, read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/article-abstract/2008/102/45/22139/Deconstructing-Power-Privilege-and-Silence-in-the.

Thornhill, Ted. “We Want Black Students, Just Not You: How White Admissions Counselors Screen Black Prospective Students – Ted Thornhill, 2019.” SAGE Journals , 5 Sept. 2018, journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332649218792579.

Black Student Union 1968-69

Student Demands that the Claremont Colleges Black Student Union made in 1968-9.