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Wilson Okello, assistant professor of education, hesitated to call a series of events organized by select Penn State Black faculty to highlight the universitys “deliberate indifference to issues of racial

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A faculty member said Penn State’s promise to better fund existing DEI programs felt like “an attempt to pit people against one another.”

STATE COLLEGE — When Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi canceled the Center for Racial Justice in 2022, she pledged to invest the millions of dollars earmarked for the center in

A faculty member said Penn State’s promise to better fund existing DEI programs felt like “an attempt to pit people against one another.”

A faculty member said Penn State’s promise to better fund existing DEI programs felt like “an attempt to pit people against one another.”

Penn State faculty and students held a teach-in Thursday to address what they felt was the university’s inaction since canceling the Center for Racial Justice.