{"id":2041,"date":"2007-02-08T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/professor-accuses-mit-of-racism\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T00:05:56","slug":"professor-accuses-mit-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/professor-accuses-mit-of-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor accuses MIT of racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/higher\/articles\/2007\/02\/06\/professor_accuses_mit_of_racism\/\"><em>The Boston Globe<\/em>: Professor accuses MIT of racism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As some 30 students and colleagues gathered in support yesterday, an MIT professor began a hunger strike outside the university leaders&#8217; offices, saying the school has denied him tenure due to racism.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly two years, James L. Sherley, a stem cell scientist, has asked senior administration to overturn his department head&#8217;s decision not to put his name forward for tenure. The provost said the decision would stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe: Professor accuses MIT of racism As some 30 students and colleagues gathered in support yesterday, an MIT professor began a hunger strike outside the university leaders&#8217; offices, saying the school has denied him tenure due to racism. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/professor-accuses-mit-of-racism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}