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Article: Southern Illinois U. minority students voice concerns on black faculty departures
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- University Wire
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- April 7, 2004
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Ashley Richardson
University Wire
04-07-2004
(Daily Egyptian) (U-WIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Michael Eagle is an African-American male. A 23-year-old graduate student in workforce education, Eagle has attended Southern Illinois University-Carbondale since 1998, and in those six years he is just one of many black students at the university who say they have never had a black professor outside of the Black American Studies Program.
"There is no good reason for us to have the kind of percentage that we do," Eagle said. "We deserve to have more black faculty.
"As much as this institution boasts diversity, I think it's almost appalling that there aren't enough black faculty to meet the needs of ...