Black faculty, staff urge USF to look inward for systemic racism
Nearly 90 black USF faculty members and staff urge the Tampa university to do better in examining, acknowledging, and fixing inequities for blacks on campus.
Nearly 90 black USF faculty members and staff urge the university to take a number of steps, including training top administrators in sensitivity and multicultural competence, evaluating pay disparities, stepping up efforts to recruit more black employees, expanding funding for Africana and Latin American studies, and examining policies and procedures at the university’s police department.
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