Students chide Dartmouth for lack of faculty diversity

[...] it wasn't until May when one of her favorite teachers, an assistant professor of English who is Asian-American, was denied tenure that the 26-year-old senior went public with her concerns.

Angry over the denial, Padilla joined dozens of students and faculty at the Ivy League school who launched a campaign demanding that Aimee Bahng's case be reconsidered.

Dartmouth is the latest university to find itself in the crosshairs of students angry about the makeup of its faculty and, in some cases, its student body.

When one looks at the last year and the number of protests that have occurred on college campuses around this issue of diversity, tenure denial is part and parcel of the larger trend among higher ed institutions.

Along with her teaching and writing on Asian-American literature, feminist science and technology studies, and queer theory, the 40-year-old mentored undergraduate and graduate minority students and helped create and teach a popular course dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement.