The Chronicle: Professor at MIT Resigns, Criticizing Its Dealings With a Colleague Who Was Denied Tenure
A prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has resigned, saying the university breached an agreement to reconsider allegations that racism played a role in the decision to deny tenure to his colleague, James L. Sherley.
“I leave because I would neither be able to advise young blacks about their prospects of flourishing in the current environment, nor about avenues available to effect change when agreements or promises are transgressed,” Frank L. Douglas, executive director of the university’s Center for Biomedical Innovation, wrote in an e-mail message on Friday to MIT’s president and provost, among other officials. Mr. Douglas and Mr. Sherley are both black.
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