Thread by @ActiveRoberts

#RacismInTheAcademy

1/ Black professors are less than 5 percent of all tenured professors in the U.S. I am a Black tenured Associate Professor.

So read this. A university, which I will name University A (school of public health) expressed interest in me joining as faculty.

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2/ University A is not ranked in the top 30 of R1s. My current institution is ranked in the top 20.

University A told me that I would not be able to be an Associate Professor or tenured if I joined as faculty even though I already hold that position.

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3/ University A said that I would “need two R01s” in order to be tenured and and Associate Professor, despite the well established NIH funding gap.

Black investigators are nearly half as like to get funding compared the White investigators.

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4/ University A sings their DEI commitments (obviously their forgot the A for #antiracism) and says “oh, well we really like you and you could just come in as an Assistant Professor to give you time to get the NIH funding”.

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5/ Academia has a long legacy of anti-Blackness. Perhaps that is why University A has no tenured or TT faculty in the department of question.

So, no, University A, I will not relinquish my hard earned rank for your racist and antiquated practice and policy.

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6/ Ironically, but perhaps not, University A denied my grandfather admission to their medical school. At least then they said it was because he was Black. Today, University A, like many others hide behind BS #DEI commitments and baseless performative acts.

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Correction - “University A has no tenured or TT Black faculty in the department of question”.