Photo illustration by The Chronicle Four young scholars met at a conference in 2013, and decided they’d stick together, forming a group to see one another through the stresses and successes of being early career academics. All were Black, and they shared a research interest: counseling and psychology. One by one, the group’s members reached the milestone that cements any academic career: tenure. Two went up for tenure in 2018, a third last spring. This year was to be Paul C. Harris’s turn. The group thought Harris, an assistant professor in the University of Virginia’s counselor-education program, whose research focuses on Black student-athletes’ college readiness, had as strong a case as any of them.