“And I realized the reason there was such a wealth gap … between whites and African Americans is because African Americans used to be somebody’s property.”

“At the [center] of BC, they have never dealt with a core perception that they have not been inclusive and diverse in dismantling the issues they needed to dismantle on their campus. At the core, there is no understanding of zero tolerance on this campus,” Lewis-Mosley said.

“We don’t expect political science to mentor students at a kind of personal level, or to, like, take an interest in them in terms of their kind of psychic well being, or whether they feel welcomed on campus. But we do expect that of black studies programs or departments.”

“Have you ever stopped to consider what the meaning of integration has meant in the past?”

“I hadn’t heard anything about [students] being placed on Newton Campus until several weeks into the school year. I didn’t know until a student told me,” said Director of Transfer Admissions Mary French.