GoLocalProv | Hiring Process of URI's New President Grossly Flawed—Louis Kwame Fosu, Guest MINDSETTER™
Saturday, April 17, 2021 Dr. Marc Parlange Dear Dr. Marc Parlange, On April 12, 2021, the Board of Trustees of the University of Rhode Island (URI) announced your selection as our next President. Sadly, the announcement came as a disappointment to many members of the URI community – faculty, staff and students – who firmly believe that your selection arose from a grossly flawed, discriminatory hiring process that harms African Americans, specifically, and the diversity and inclusion efforts of the whole URI community. I write (A) to inform you of the history of systemic racism at U...