"Focus: Nate Dupree"

"Focus: Nate Dupree"

Student interest in having more Black studies courses added to Ursinus College.

“Focus: Nate Dupree Can a Black Man Find Happiness at Ursinus? Well…” is an interview written by Richard Whaley and published November 7, 1974 Ursinus Weekly. In the interview Dupree mentions that he would like to add a Black studies program and black administrators/professors to Ursinus college. While Dupree does not expect the school to implement such programs due to their cost, he believes the school might change if there is pressure from the government. The courses, or lack thereof, may even be the reason why students transfer out of the college. However, the lack of black students, and other minority students, is shocking to Dupree; who has moved from Philadelphia to Ursinus in pursuit of his political science degree. As the college seeks to diversify itself through other means (i.e. bringing in foreign students according to Dupree) the desire to have more inclusive curriculum can be traced as far back as the 1970s.

Richard Whaley

The Ursinus Weekly

Ursinus College

November 7, 1974

Richard Whaley

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Black studies at Ursinus College Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Ursinus College 1974

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