Senior faculty are incredibly powerful. In a two-page tenure letter, they can make or break a career. This power has an outsized impact on scholars with marginalized identities, such as Black academics, who are promoted with tenure at lower rates than their white colleagues.
Are you a senior faculty? Do you want to align your letters with your anti-racist values? A group of us, educated at #A4BL to disrupt anti-Black racism in academia, suggest practical steps how: