MIT Pledges to Improve Conditions for Minority Faculty Members
Source: blogs.sciencema Posted By: Ethan W...5458 days ago
Institutional racism is the reason why there are so few minority faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). You won't find such a blunt statement in today's report by a nine-member panel created in 2007 to look at faculty race and diversity issues. The exercise was launched in the midst of a hunger strike by biologist James Sherley, who claimed racial discrimination after being denied tenure. (See this Science story.) And it's easy to see what Sherley was talking about after picking....