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cjgl-2744	Kupenda, Angela mae; Lawson, Tamara F.	‘Truth and Reconciliation’: A Critical Step Toward Eliminating Race and Gender Violations in Tenure Wars	2015	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10281	438	48	Columbia Journal of Gender and law88 31.1 access to individuals in underrepresented groups, they battled first just to gain admission to law schools as students and then to be admitted to the Bar.2 The struggle continued as they also sought to be hired on the permanent faculty at various institutions.3 After securing faculty appointments, candidates from underrepresented groups have continued to wage tenure wars for decades, just for their survival in the academy.4 They confront many obstacles,5 including inconsistent application of rules and requirements,6 micro-aggressions,7 and overt hostilities8 to their successes. In other words, individuals from underrepresented groups appear to be in a war to obtain tenure and otherwise succeed at their institutions.9 While it has been said that, “All is fair in love and war,” even in war there are rules of engagement.10 Therefore, in tenure wars, rules 2 See generally Gwen Hoerr Jordan, Acts of (Incremental) Change:	cache/cjgl-2744.pdf	txt/cjgl-2744.txt