Patricia Matthew, associate professor of English at Montclair State University and editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (The University of North Carolina Press, 2016), breaks down the invisible work often taken on by professors of color to address campus diversity issues and how it harms their tenure prospects.

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"After Michael Brown in Ferguson, you wanted to be the faculty member that could help organize community conversations. Those are hard and exhausting and they’re not the same as being on the faculty award committee," @triciamatthew on the work taken on by professors of color.

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"There’s an idea that we have about what a professor and a scholar does and it’s work that is separate from the work of the community… the thing that matters most, the gold standard is still peer reviewed research," says @triciamatthew.

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"It’s not your job to fix your institution’s problems about race… those problems existed before you got there and many of your white colleagues will let you spin your wheels trying fix it and then you won’t get tenure. Your job is to get tenure," says @triciamatthew.

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