In a report released Monday, a panel of outside evaluators found unintentional racial biases at Emerson College and offered several recommendations to rectify its tenure and promoting process. The report recommended higher standards of professional development and support for pre-tenure faculty members, greater clarity within each academic department regarding requirements for tenure and promotion, more incorporation of multi-cultural competency among the faculty and administration and the hiring more full professors and tenure-track faculty as well as already tenured black professors.
China shattered. Pictures crashed to the floor. The whole house swayed and bucked in time with the shaking earth below it. For a hellish half-minute, freshman Christine Bernard clenched the nearest doorframe in her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
To Emerson students, it looks straight out of a documentary or a picture in their history book: students woke up Feb. to signs reading "White Only" and "Colored Only" on some of their bathrooms and water fountains. The placards are part of African-American Heritage Month sponsored by EBONI, Emerson's Black Organization with National Interests.
With the tenure review panel's findings only days old, students share their responses with the Beacon.
The Board of Trustees announced Jan. 29 that it has convened a committee of 15 professionals and one student to find President Jacqueline Liebergott's replacement. Peter Meade, the chair of the search committee and of the college's Board of Trustees, said the group has already discussed plans via telephone, and will meet regularly as they continue to hash out the details concerning the type of leader they are looking for.