Underrepresented faculty members share the real reasons they have left various academic institutions (opinion)

Underrepresented faculty members share the real reasons they have left various academic institutions (opinion)

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“A mediator who was once hired to deal with the hostile climate in a department told me, ‘You are like a canary in the coal mine.’ While the canary signals the imminent danger in the coal mine, it is also always caged, and its eventual fate is death.”

Under-represented faculty and staff members engaged in diversity work sometimes leave an institution to protect their well-being, says English professor Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, who surveyed faculty members about why they left academia. (Inside Higher Ed)