Some might see this as giving up but can you blame someone for not wanting to stay in such a toxic environment?

Isaac Stanley-Becker reports at the Washington Post.

Yale instructor at the center of racial protest to leave teaching role

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale lecturer whose email about Halloween costumes exposed long-simmering racial tensions on this Ivy League campus has decided to stop teaching at the university.

Before Erika Christakis found herself at the center of a national debate about free speech and racial sensitivity, she was known primarily as an early childhood educator who taught courses on child development and psychology. But it is her role as the associate master of Silliman College, one of Yale’s 12 undergraduate communities, that became a focus of intense scrutiny after she sent an email to Silliman students critiquing a college-wide request that they think twice before wearing Halloween costumes that might be seen as culturally insensitive.

“American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience,” she wrote Oct. 30. “Increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”

The email, combined with allegations leveled the same weekend that a Yale fraternity had barred black women from a party, provoked outrage among students of color, who confronted top administrators and demanded they take action to improve the university’s racial climate.

Through a set of initiatives unveiled last month, including faculty growth in fields dealing with race and ethnicity, Peter Salovey, Yale’s president, took a major step in quelling these tensions.