When students learned that the university declined to renew professor R. Scott Heath’s contract, they came together to ask questions and advocate for his return, calling his firing unjust.
English junior Crow Carson was choosing their fall 2023 courses when they realized that no classes were being taught by African-American studies professor Scott Heath, the only Black professor in Loyola’s English department. Initially, Carson said they thought Heath made the decision to leave Loyola, but later found out from a letter that Heath sent.