“Thanks for speaking truth about the difference between the change institutions say they want and their contradictory actions! It’s exhausting, demoralizing, and enraging. It’s a lot to hold,' bestselling author Erika L. Sánchez said in an Instagram post.
a push to raise the school’s percentage of Hispanic students to over 25 percent—closer to the city’s actual demographics—and reap federal funding by becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution.
“This has been a challenging week for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences,” wrote the college’s dean, Guillermo Vásquez de Velasco, in a statement, stressing that the decision was a “difficult” one, while offering few details on why Sánchez was cut. “This feels like a $33.1 million gun that’s being held to the faculty’s heads,” one English professor told Crains.
Another student, Emma Soto, told The Daily Beast that her time in Sánchez’s class during the pandemic was a bright spot academically but also because it was a unique opportunity at a university where Latino students and professors are few and far between.
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