{"id":2515,"date":"2007-06-05T18:29:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T02:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/professor-at-mit-resigns-criticizing-its-dealings-with-a-colleague-who-was-denied-tenure\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T18:29:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T02:29:39","slug":"professor-at-mit-resigns-criticizing-its-dealings-with-a-colleague-who-was-denied-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/professor-at-mit-resigns-criticizing-its-dealings-with-a-colleague-who-was-denied-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor at MIT Resigns, Criticizing Its Dealings With a Colleague Who Was Denied Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/2007060501n.htm\">Professor at MIT Resigns, Criticizing Its Dealings With a Colleague Who Was Denied Tenure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Frank L. Douglas, executive director of the university&#8217;s Center for Biomedical Innovation, wrote in an e-mail message on Friday to MIT&#8217;s president and provost, among other officials. Mr. Douglas and Mr. Sherley are both black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/professor-at-mit-resigns-criticizing-its-dealings-with-a-colleague-who-was-denied-tenure\/\">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-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}