Remember that research retreat for faculty of color I was upset about? The one where people were excluded based on race for purposes of inclusivity? The good news is that I’m not upset anymore because it turned out to be a scheme aimed at tricking these poor faculty of color into relinquishing their course materials to underpaid “visiting lecturers.” After giving up their courses, the faculty of color were supposed to be shipped to the plantation outside of the university for onerous assignments that would effectively prevent them from doing research.
In short, go to a research retreat to help you publish more and end up with your courses stolen and unable to publish.
The bad news is that it took me a mountain of effort to free my two faculty of color who got trapped into this scheme. They are fortunate that they have me who is willing to go to the bat for them and liberate them. The faculty of color who have less combative and less feared department heads are still trapped.
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