In Injustice against Women of Color in the Academy, Jane Junn Mai’a K. Davis Cross sheds light on the discrimination that women of color face in the workplace, specifically in the tenure track at the University of Southern California. This reading, which happened to be a case study, focused on providing data that showed the university’s corrupt processes of denying tenure from people of color. The findings of this study especially showed the lack of diversity in awarding tenure to faculty. For example, 92% of white male faculty were awarded tenure at USC compared to only 55% of female and minority faculty were awarded tenure at USC. Also. white junior faculty were awarded tenure at a higher rate than minority junior faculty. It is also interesting that this data clearly displays the institution’s issue of diversity, and the university continues to do this behind closed doors. For example, USC’s tenure review is a highly secretive process. As said in the reading, the process is like a black box where candidates submit their dossier and for a whole year there is no information to be conveyed. After that year, the tenure decision comes out of the black box with no explanation. I actually never knew about the in depth process of becoming a professor, so it was interesting but not surprising that these universities take advantage of this process by hiding how they make these decisions.
Question: Is there any way the government can require these universities to reveal their tenure review processes?
Grollman, E. (2013, August 14). The 7-Year Experiment: Tenure-Track Without Losing My Soul. Retrieved June 29, 2019, from https://conditionallyaccepted.com/2013/08/14/tenure-track/
Davis Cross, J.J.M.K. (2019, June 6). Injustice against Women in Color in the Academy. June 29, 2019.
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