A visiting professor at Southern Illinois University is advocating for schools to provide bereavement leave to allow black faculty time to grieve and process trauma following triggering racist news…
A visiting professor at Southern Illinois University is advocating for universities to provide bereavement leave to allow black faculty time to grieve and process trauma following triggering racist news and experiences.
The professor said she often puts her students’ needs before her own, but that universities should do more to support faculty of color — more than just sending out a campus-wide email in the wake of tragedies — in order to retain them. She said universities should fund counseling for black faculty to work through “racial battle fatigue,” or RBF, a term that refers to “the psychological and physiological consequences of experiencing racism.”
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