Michael Fry, one of Columbia College Chicago’s most celebrated faculty members and a tenured associate professor, resigned January 20, citing discrimination and racial insensitivity in the television department, where he’s been a full-time faculty member since 2007. He began teaching at Columbia as an adjunct in 1997.
“They will use me as advertising, but they will not treat me with dignity,” Fry told the Chronicle, which also reported that “after a negative post-tenure review last year, Fry said he had reached his limit.”
