Reports of the resignation of Paul Griffiths, a professor of Catholic theology at Duke Divinity School, relate his departure to a disagreement with a dean over diversity training.
But there's a bigger story behind the story at Duke Divinity.
Many of its black students are troubled by what they called, in an April 19 letter to Duke's provost, their experience of “continual inequity” at the divinity school. They expressed concerns about grading, internship placements and the treatment of black faculty and staff, among other issues.
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