At Cabrillo College near Santa Cruz, Nikia Chaney stands out. You can spot her bright pink hair from a distance. She’s also the only Black professor out of the community college’s 165 tenured or tenure-track faculty. Faculty diversity has increased slightly over the past 15 years, but a report the chancellor’s office issued in November acknowledged that […]

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