Wheaton Faculty Wants Hawkins Retained
Update (Feb. 4): A Wheaton faculty committee focused on diversity has raised concerns that Larycia Hawkins—the college's first black, female, tenured professor—has been treated in a discriminatory manner, according to an internal memo leaked to Time magazine.
“We believe that the college has demonstrated a pattern of differential over-scrutiny about Dr. Hawkins’s beliefs in ways often tied to race, gender, and marital status,” states the advisory memo, according to Time. “This pattern of over-scrutiny precipitated missteps and discriminatory differential treatment of Dr. Hawkins in the present proceedings.”
