Posted on 04/19/2017 8:12:58 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
"Diversity statements" are used by universities in Oregon to weed out conservative and other right-leaning scholars at universities, a new report issued by the Oregon Association of Scholars (OAS) alleges.
Per the report, the universities in Oregon (University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Portland State University, and Oregon Health and Science University) use a new kind of litmus test to single out conservative scholars: diversity statements.
The report’s executive summary reads, as follows:
Oregon colleges and universities have begun to impose requirements for prospective and current faculty to show their commitment to the partisan ideology of "diversity, equity, and inclusion." This is only one part of a bigger push to impose a partisan ideology onto higher education in the state, but its threat to academic freedom and research excellence is acute. While in theory, these terms can be defined in ways consistent with a variety of political perspectives, in practice Oregon universities have defined them in strongly partisan ways. As these new ideological litmus tests spread throughout the state, faculty will spend more time signaling their zealous support and making sure not to challenge students in ways that might be construed as a threat to this ideology. This report examines the spread of diversity statements for faculty hiring and promotion at the University of Oregon, Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon State University, and Portland State University. It considers the ways they have been imposed on faculty, the harms they will cause, and the ways they can be reversed.
As much as I’d like to be a professor at a decent college or U, there is NO WAY I would tolerate the politics and general idiocy of left wingers and their BS “Diversity” obsession.
Screw them. Colleges and Us weren’t created as a lifetime job or political grandstand for them. What losers
They spread marxism. No wonder the left wants college tuition “free”.
Hillsdale college needs to start satellite campuses.
Diversity is great as long as you don’t diverge from their orthodoxy.
>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<
...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one’s own family.
Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.
Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday’s Diversity is today’s intolerable lack of Diversity.
Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.
For public universities, there are going to be lawsuits.
So lie, get tenure then come out of the closet.
They are doing this for welding associates degrees at local community schools. Ask my son.
no! Really?
Could Marxism + Narcissism= the new diversity?
Yes though I'm sure it is not to weed them out but it is a submission thing. It's infuriating!
A “university” is so named because it’s supposed to expose the attendees to a universe of ideas. Nowadays it’s more of a commuversity.
Historians will one day look back on this time in complete bewilderment.
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