New Academic Home Expected To Help Maryland Update Journalism Education: ...With more than 650 students, the College has struggled with diversity both among students and faculty, but Klose pledged to change that using his experience as a diversity advocate at NPR.
Currently the College has only tenured faculty of color and in their history has promoted only two faculty of color to tenure. Currently, about 28 percent of the student body is made up of students of color, which officials hope to increase to 33 percent in the next decade.
“This nation is about change and transformation; it is about increasing diversity,” Klose said. “It is about diversity and how it explains itself and holds up a mirror to itself so it can proceed in the best way possible to take the best step forward.”
