Dr. Taylor's Lecture

This week’s lecture was defiantly one of kind. Dr. Taylor is an extraordinary women, and story teller. Dr. Taylor managed to keep my attention throughout the entire class period just as all the rest of the speakers did. She was able to engage the whole audience and make us laugh. A lot of the terminology she used during the lecture like “dumbass-ification” was something that made everyone pay attention. Not to say that that’s the way we like to speak, but it’s a way in which our attention is grabbed. It a word that many of us never heard before and made us curious to find out what it meant. I have a lot of respect for Dr. Taylor from just being able to experience her presence one time. She is very intelligent and wise. Dr. Taylor started off her lecture with the significance of Diversity in Higher Education. She mentions that Howard University was one of the most diverse institutions of higher learning, if not the most. Dr. Taylor also spoke about a very important person, Ronald W. Walters who was actually a professor at Howard University. Before this lecture I had never really knew who Mr. Walters was but after hearing the significance of him, and about the sit-in I was glad to have learned about it. It made it even more significant to me because during the week I saw the funeral procession coming through the campus going to Crampton for his memorial service. He was great man.