Posted on 07/22/2014 7:09:10 AM PDT by Conservative Beacon
Many American colleges and universities are in the thrall of “diversity,” but none more so than my institution, the University of Wisconsin. This spring, the university adopted a new plan that, according to Board of Regents policy, “[p]laces the mission of diversity at the center of institutional life so that it becomes a core organizing principle.”
That is, promoting diversity appears to be more important than teaching students.
This Framework for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence sailed through our Faculty Senate without the least bit of attention, much less the “sifting and winnowing” on which it prides itself.
Although much of the language is a thicket of clichés, no one dared challenge it. Moreover, there was no probing of the ramifications of the plan. Apparently, “diversity” has become such a sacred cow that even tenured professors are afraid to question it in any way.
To begin, the university’s justification for the new policy is difficult to understand: “Our commitment is to create an environment that engages the whole person in the service of learning, recognizing that individual differences should be considered foundational to our strength as a community.”
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It is a worse than I described it. I left out the part about making the last two years of high school optional and instead, putting the potential drop outs directly into union apprenticeships and training programs, mostly in first responder unions and healthcare, which has already been taken over by the SEIU.
“Why not just give a diploma to every minority and/or a member of a special class when they sign up?”
They basically already do; have you ever read emails from tokens with degrees? It is disheartening; they will never catch up until they are treated as adults.
“It sounds to me as though grade equity has been going on at top universities for a long time.”
Definitely; it is evident everywhere in the workplace. In the end, you end up with a hierarchy/pay scale topped by white and Asian men because they can actually do the work. The preferred minorities underneath clamoring for pay equality don’t comprehend the fact that they are only hired to fend off lawsuits; nothing is (or can be) expected of them.
Since they’ve tightened their belts at my job I’ve taken to working the hours of the white women in the office; not one minute more than that for which I am paid. The unpaid overtime I worked for years as a “salaried” employee are a thing of the past...
Having stated the above, I would add one other comment on the subject of this thread, to my earlier post (#29): The idea that the purpose of education has anything whatsoever to do with equalizing people, is the clearest demonstration possible of the compulsion driven motivation for both the pursuit of diversity & the general Leftist attack on reality.
All of us differ. Recognizable racial & ethnic differences are not some sort of evil to be rectified, but part of the reality that all people differ. Education should always be directed towards drawing out what is best in the makeup of any subject; should always be addressed to optimum individual development. All economic progress since the most primitive cultures has been based upon some aspects of the division of aptitudes, utilizing a division of labor, to better use the particular aptitudes & traits of each individual involved.
This is so important in the social & economic development of any community, that to deliberately sabotage that development with an effort to equalize the disparate & complex bundles of talents--or lack thereof--of motivations--or lack thereof--by expending effort to level individuals (rather than encourage individual development) reflects not only the fanaticism of the far Left, but a willful indifference to everything we know about the complexity of human nature.
Sorry to be so long-keyboarded in addressing the most obvious reality.
William Flax
You state significant truth. But in relation to the idiocy prevalent at the subject University, it is a case of “casting pearls before swine.”
When I was matriculating through a U-Wisc college more than twenty years ago, my major, geography, was virtually all male as were the professors. The college, in an effort to get more diversity, tried to force the department to hire a female professor. One of my profs. recounted with disgust being force to interview some female candidates who were unqualified. I knew this prof. was a liberal, but he was highly unhappy about hiring people he viewed as unqualified, minorities or not. They did not hire a female prof at that time.
A few years ago I read an article in the local rag which featured some comments by a female geog. prof at my alma mater who was not there when I was. This female prof. was a fullfledged nut case.The ironic thing was that when I was still attending classes, we used to have a female prof. from another college give lectures to us concerning a technical area where none of the other male profs had expertise. But since they were not hiring people to teach the subject she was an expert in, she was never hired by the university.
Well, aint that just special. Locking in those union dues any way they can. I am working with a retired UAW electrician and he works like he is still in the union. Never saw a guy who knew more ways to slow up a job in order to get overtime in. He doesn’t work for me but after working 2 hours with him, if he did I would fire him. Period.
You didn’t earn that grade! Everyone gets a C.
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