The coronavirus is threatening diversity in academia. (Correction: diversity)
, experts say these academics could be as vulnerable to layoffs as their non-tenure track colleagues should universities choose to dissolve their departments. As for tenure-track professors, colleges can simply opt to not renew their contracts for the following semester, as is also the case with adjunct faculty.
Blain echoed Doe’s concern that departments like ethnic studies, which have served as “gateways for scholars of color, who have often been excluded from older, more traditional departments,” will be targeted in cuts because their purpose has been misunderstood. “Whereas people see African American studies as a black space or the product of black people angrily demanding more black professors, it actually exists because a multicultural coalition of students across various races and ethnicities recognized that we could not have a democracy without making sure diverse voices were included in how we teach our history and culture,” Blain said.
“We need to think about what we as institutions want to preserve and how we can best preserve it instead of only looking at the crisis as a reason to just keep shrinking,” Rana Jaleel, an assistant professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies at University of California, Davis, said.
“I always dreamed of being a college professor because in the academy we ask hard questions and have the ability not only to push and change ourselves, but to push and change the next generation,” Whitehead said. “It brings me so much joy, knowing that every student who has been in one of my classes has had the opportunity to be taught by a black woman with a PhD. For many of them, it was their first time.
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