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Wadsworth Hall as seen on March 25, 2020, on the Michigan Tech campus. The university has come under fire recently after two members of the faculty sent letters to staff members in response to a University Senate resolution.
HOUGHTON — Members of the campus community related their experience with discrimination locally and at the university during a Michigan Technological University Senate discussion on a recent anti-discrimination resolution and two campus letters from faculty protesting it.
Public comment was extended from 15 minutes to 45 minutes — then extended twice more to accommodate speakers.
In December, the Senate approved a resolution calling anti-Blackness and systemic racism ills on par with poverty and disease, and making steps to remedy it part of the university’s core mission. It also called on awareness of the problem to be part of every graduate’s education, and part of the continuing education for faculty and staff. The university should also promote and support research on the topic and ways to support it, the resolution said.