A white UMass Boston professor, Jeffrey Melnick, was accused of racism by the school chancellor, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, who is Latino, in a school-wide email after he publicly questioned the qualifications of a black dean, Tyson King-Meadows, to chair a staffing committee.During a February 7 faculty council meeting, Melnick, a professor of American studies and the elected Communications Director of the Faculty Staff Union, questioned Provost Joseph B. Berger's decision to appoint King-Meadows - the newly hired dean of liberal arts - to lead the search for a new education dean. During the faculty council meeting, which King-Meadows was attending, Melnick said King-Meadows' appointment to lead the new staff search was 'a matter of some controversy,' because the faculty had not yet 'worked out the feelings' about the search that lead to King-Meadows' own hiring.
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