{"id":58,"date":"2019-05-03T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-obean\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T17:36:24","slug":"teachers-of-color-as-activists-and-organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2310-spring-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-249 \" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2310-spring-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2019\/05\/symposi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2310-spring-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2019\/05\/symposi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2310-spring-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2019\/05\/symposi-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2310-spring-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2019\/05\/symposi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2310-spring-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2019\/05\/symposi-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2310-spring-2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2019\/05\/symposi.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2017 Family Weekend &#8211; Presidents Summer Research Symposium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since Bowdoin was founded at the end of the eighteenth century, the college\u2019s racial makeup has changed dramatically. The Bowdoin of 2019 is far different from that of its original conception. Interested in this seemingly sudden shift towards the promotion of racial diversity on Bowdoin&#8217;s campus, we hope to focus on the question of how Bowdoin\u2019s community has come to look like it does today. Specifically, what steps has the college taken to increase enrollment of minority students over time? What did the <em>process<\/em> look like?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order to answer this question, our team has analyzed and gathered several files within Bowdoin&#8217;s Special Collections that tell us about the history of students of color at Bowdoin.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While looking at these archived letters to prospective applicants of color, admissions and financial aid-centered materials, and demographic information, we have identified core ways that Bowdoin has appealed to students of color. The renaming of an event once known as a \u201cWeekend for Black Perspective Freshman\u201d to what we now recognize as the \u201cBowdoin Experience\u201d, for instance, speaks greatly to the recruitment efforts Bowdoin has made over time and makes up one of many of the school&#8217;s efforts. O<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ther outreach efforts have included letters and pamphlets sent to prospective minority students, financial aid and scholarship expansion, and the implementation of the test-optional program to make admission more accessible to a greater variety of students, and all files that we hope to share.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Bowdoin was founded at the end of the eighteenth century, the college\u2019s racial makeup has changed dramatically. The Bowdoin of 2019 is far different from that of its original conception. 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