Us & Them

Diversity Divide


Listen Later

There are now more students of color at some universities and colleges in the U.S. In the past decade at Western Illinois University, the non-white student population nearly tripled to one-third of the enrollment. The change helped fill classrooms and satisfy the school’s mission. But it’s part of what pushed the school’s first African-American president out of his job.


For this episode, we look at how campus diversity can divide a community and Trey has a conversation with Jack Stripling, Senior Writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education about his article, “Fear of a Black Campus: How an ugly campaign to force out an African American president exposed racial fault lines in a mostly white town.”

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Us & ThemBy Trey Kay and WVPB

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

392 ratings


More shows like Us & Them

View all
On the Media by WNYC Studios

On the Media

9,129 Listeners

On Point | Podcast by WBUR

On Point | Podcast

3,883 Listeners

Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

38,151 Listeners

Reveal by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

Reveal

8,245 Listeners

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts by Slate Podcasts

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

3,478 Listeners

Scene on Radio by Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Scene on Radio

10,838 Listeners

The NPR Politics Podcast by NPR

The NPR Politics Podcast

25,717 Listeners

Code Switch by NPR

Code Switch

14,525 Listeners

Pod Save America by Crooked Media

Pod Save America

86,163 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

111,044 Listeners

It's Been a Minute by NPR

It's Been a Minute

8,918 Listeners

Throughline by NPR

Throughline

15,941 Listeners

Consider This from NPR by NPR

Consider This from NPR

5,975 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,326 Listeners

The Opinions by The New York Times Opinion

The Opinions

389 Listeners