The cancellation of a planned center for racial justice is one of a series of missteps by the university's administration that have left “a void in Penn State’s soul.”
The university’s deeply troubled racial past extends back decades. As a Black faculty member for the past 25 years, I have experienced and witnessed numerous incidents of racism — both institutional and personal — and my experience is far from unique., I helped author a pair of reports that found that, among other things, more than 80% of Penn State’s Black faculty reported experiencing racism.
Unfortunately, our hopes soon evaporated. Within months, Barron’s successor, Neeli Bendapudi, who came to Penn State by way of the Universities of Louisville and Kansas, decided to cancel theMany students, staff, and faculty took Bendapudi’s decision as the latest example of Penn State’s dishonorable legacy of false promises to promote racial justice and equity. More than 400 faculty members signed a petition protesting the center’s cancellation.
One is reminded of the biblical passage, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.” Here, charity may be equated with verity of intent and action. The Bendapudi administration and the Penn State board of trustees have demonstrated that they lack both.
And in another episode, a prominent member of the Penn State board of trustees, the billionaire petroleum magnate Terry Pegula, was accused in a lawsuit oflikely does little to reassure Black students, including athletes, and Black faculty members that they belong at Penn State and that Penn State belongs to them.
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