Recovering Executive Director

This summer, I am putting myself back in the classroom but not as a teacher, as a student.  It's been a few years since I've been on that side of the podium.  I have always wanted to have a better understanding of American higher education to improve my own teaching and connectedness to today's college students. Luckily for me, my first course is a special topics class called "Race and Ethnicity in the Formation of American Higher Education" being taught by Dr. Rodney Cohen. He is a visiting associate professor and President of the Association for Black Culture Centers (ABCC).  NIU became the national headquarters of ABCC in November 2015.  We are reading the book " The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 ". The course begins with a discussion of how African Americans were educated in the south.  I have never studied this before so I am soaking up all of this rich heritage but also questioning our current climate in higher education. Ear...