Academia’s Problem Is Bigger Than Tenure’s Decline
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TL;DR
- Tyler Austin Harper, a former Bates College professor, wrote an essay for The Atlantic about leaving the tenure track.
- Harper, who is African American, felt he was treated as a "racial prop" on a campus obsessed with race and DEI.
- He described the culture at Bates as "deeply, incorrigibly racist" and stated the college betrayed principles and people in the name of social justice.