Just imagine the reactions to a headline like “Faculty Blackness Complicates the Classroom.”

Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:

Faculty ‘whiteness’ a problem at Brown

Is a racially diverse faculty is a necessary requirement for a good college education?

The Brown Daily Herald apparently believes so, with its story “Faculty Whiteness Complicates the Classroom.”

In it, article authors Emma Harris and Joseph Zappa lament the fact that white faculty outnumber “underrepresented minority” faculty at Brown by a factor of ten.

That definition of “underrepresented minority” does not include Asians (is this really a surprise?), and then, when comparing the campus enrollment of white students to that of minorities, the definition of the term becomes based on those who “self-identify” as such.

This dearth of “faculty of color” makes for some … uncomfortable experiences:

Students of color sometimes encounter difficulties in the classroom resulting from the differences between their experiences and those of white faculty members.

While Armani Madison ’16, president of Brown’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has not experienced outward racial bias from faculty members, he said, “race is dealt with quickly” in the classroom. When racial issues in the United States are brought up, they are frequently skirted by professors and summarized in the framework of the American people moving forward, he said.

White faculty members sometimes espouse views in class that should be questioned, said Emma, a junior whose name has been changed to maintain confidentiality.