Daily News | Penn State wavers on funding for Center for Racial Justice, a key commitment following 2020 protests
The report found the number of Black faculty at Penn State’s University Park campus stayed relatively flat over a 15-year period, while the number of non-Black faculty increased. Over that same period at the campus, the number of Black faculty who were tenured or on the tenure track decreased. Thedetailed faculty experiences of racism and urged Penn State leadership to take concrete action rather than issue supportive statements.
In its letter to Bendapudi, the search committee wrote that addressing the concerns of “More Rivers to Cross” is “mission critical” for Penn State. The report recommended that Penn State fund 50 tenure-track positions to boost the number of Black faculty, authorize an external study of pay disparities among faculty, restructure the university’s Affirmative Action Office to better investigate allegations of racism, and create and fund a research center on anti-racism.
Gary King, a professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State and co-author of “More Rivers to Cross,” told Spotlight PA the university’s lack of financial support for the Center for Racial Justice is an embarrassment and raises serious questions about Penn State’s commitment to meaningful change. King did not serve on the university-sanctioned commission and is focused on implementing recommendations from his report, which he characterized as more ambitious than those of the university commission.
“If [the university] doesn’t even accept what its own commission has proposed and what it said it was going to do there, and it retracts on that, it means the situation is really bleak for the university overall with respect to addressing matters of systemic racism,” he said. “It’s more flare than substance.”
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