Why tenure is so important — yet rare — for Black professors

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Black professors “provide a level of representation and credibility in establishing a baseline of a diverse and inclusive faculty,” one professor says, but many Black academics find the path to tenure at predominantly white colleges daunting. - NBCBLK

from the Harvard Divinity School citing a tenure debate. He said in a letter that the Ivy League school suffered from “decline and decay” and a “spiritual rot.”

Still, at non-HBCUs Black professors “provide a level of representation and credibility in establishing a baseline of a diverse and inclusive faculty,” Shepherd said. “It also affirms and establishes, given the system that academia has put in place, that you are someone that that university wants to invest in or ride with, so to speak.”And yet history has shown that many Black academics find the path to tenure at predominantly white colleges daunting at best.

“And one of the two was recently hired,” said Evans, who served as president of HBCU Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina. He earned tenure in 2005 at J.F. Drake Technical College in Huntsville, Alabama. He said Hannah-Jones’ decision to bypass UNC for Howard was a watershed moment.“Her treatment has brought to public light how differently we are judged,” Evans said.

Paul Harris knows this all too well. A scholar at the University of Virginia, Harris was denied tenure at his alma mater when the Promotion and Tenure Committee claimed that his publication record didn’t meet expectations. It deemed his work in theto be “self-published,” even though it is a selective, peer-reviewed journal. More than 4,000 of Harris’ former students and colleagues signed a petition denouncing the decision.

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