A former Black professor quit because of DEI
About this episode
Tyler Austin Harper discusses his experiences as a Black professor and the impact of DEI policies on his academic career.
Tyler Austin Harper was on a tenure track at a college in Maine when he began to realize that the school’s DEI policies were actually burdening him as a Black man. “The inescapable conclusion I arrived at was that I had been hired to be visibly Black first and a scholar second, if at all,” he writes in an essay for The Atlantic headlined “Confessions of a Token Black Professor: Why I lost faith in academia.” He joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his experiences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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