'I Don't Want to Be the Only One': Cornell's 8 Black Women Full-Professors Face Disproportionate Burdens
When Prof. Emeritus Josephine Allen, policy analysis and management, joined Cornell in the fall of 1977, she went on to become the first Black woman professor to be tenured at the University. Disheartened by the lack of diversity she saw among professors, she spent much of her career advocating for the hiring of more Black women as faculty. Prof. Josephine Allen, policy analysis and management/Courtesy of Cornell University But 44 years after Allen first joined, a lack of representation, and the ripple effects that come with it, persist at Cornell. According to a 2019 National Center for ...
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