Black Students, Faculty: UNC Needs Self-Examination on Race
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faculty members at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, known as UNC, have expressed
frustration at the way they are treated. Among other problems, they have said they deal with increased attention from school police. And they have noted that the university has too few Black students and teachers.
Last month, several hundred students at UNC protested what they saw as another example of the school’s failure to support students and teachers of color.
The protests started after university leaders first decided not to vote on offering
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Alumni, students and faculty concerned with the lack of explanation behind University of Miami President Julio Frenk’s decision to fire UM School of Law Dean Anthony Varona continue to push the university for answers, despite widespread support for his transitional replacement.
Following the July 1 appointment of acting Dean Stephen J. Schnably, a respected, long-time professor at UM law, faculty members released another letter criticizing Frenk’s firing of Varona and demanding answers.
“The abrupt termination of Dean Anthony Varona, and the upheaval that has occurred in its wake, has been a terrible blow to our community,” faculty said in the letter, which was sent to various news outlets on July 5, according to a signee.