Professor, Aboriginal committee stand by Lakehead U Dean who quite amid allegations of racism – APTN News

April 23, 2018

A tenured professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay is supporting the dean of the institution’s law school who recently quit amid allegations of racism.

Dennis McPherson, an Ojibway lawyer from Couchiching First Nation who has been a faculty member in the Department of Indigenous Learning at Lakehead for more than two decades, said racism has been alive and well at the institution for a long time.

“What’s happening at the law school is certainly not a surprise,” said Dennis McPherson.

The comments come following the resignation of the dean of the country’s youngest law school which has revealed allegations of systemic racism and reverse discrimination among staff, faculty and senior administration at Lakehead.

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