California college dean resigns amid race protests
Claremont McKenna student complained of feeling unwelcome
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Mary Spellman, the assistant vice president and dean of students at Claremont McKenna College, resigned her post after a protest waged based on her email to a Hispanic student that was perceived as biased.
Spellman wrote in her email the college would try to serve even those “who don’t fit our CMC mold,” Reuters reported.
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Students took to campus grounds to rally against what they saw as a discriminatory statement, calling for administrators to take action. That protest followed a letter about 30 minority students sent to college president Hiram Chodosh earlier this year expressing their feelings of intimidation at the elite, Los Angeles-area liberal arts school that touts an enrollment of about 1,300. Tuition runs about $46,000 per year.
One student, Lisette Espinosa, said there was “continual neglect” of complaints about discrimination in an op-ed she wrote a few weeks ago for the student newspaper. For example, she described herself as a Mexican from a low-income family and therefore felt unwelcome on campus at times, Reuters reported.
Spellman emailed Espinosa and said: “We are working on better serving our students, especially those who don’t fit our CMC mold.”
And that’s what sent students into an uproar. Several gathered outside her office to protest, and one even vowed to go on a hunger strike until she resigned.
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The college, in response to Spellman’s resignation, said the decision was her own and that administrators are now trying to hire two campus officials with a mission of promoting diversity and inclusion.
The resignation comes on the heels of chaos at the University of Missouri that led the president and chancellor to resign. Other schools around the nation, like Ithaca and Yale, are facing similar race-based protests and calls for reform.
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