Furious Faculty Blast Penn State for Abandoning New Racial Justice Center
Hundreds of staff members at Penn State University have signed a damning letter in response to the school’s abrupt cancellation of a major initiative focused on racial justice.
Over 160 members of the Penn State faculty this week have signed the letter, detailing their frustrations regarding the university’s Oct. 26 announcement that it will abandon the development of the Center for Racial Justice, according to StateCollege.com. In the letter, which circulated through an internal Google Form, faculty members chastised administrators’ decision to divest money from the center, which they called a “broken promise.”
“Last week, Penn State reminded us why it needs a space that is dedicated to the production of ideas and practices aimed at ending the structural racism that plagues its own campus and the nation as a whole,” faculty members wrote in the letter, State College reported.
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