In Loco Masculi. The feminization of the American university is all but complete.

City Journal ^ | March 5, 2023 | Heather Mac Donald

[karpov]

Sometimes a single incident efficiently summarizes a larger trend. So it is with New York University’s selection of its new president, Linda Mills, a licensed clinical social worker and an NYU social work professor. She researches trauma and bias, as well as race and gender in the legal academy. She is a documentary filmmaker and teaches advocacy filmmaking. She serves as an NYU vice chancellor and as a senior vice provost for Global Programs and University Life. In all these roles, Mills is the very embodiment of the contemporary academy. The most significant part of her identity, however, and the one that ties the rest of her curriculum vitae together, is that she is female, and thus overdetermined as NYU’s next president.

Mills is part of the Great Feminization of the American university, an epochal change whose consequences have yet to be recognized. Seventy-five percent of Ivy League presidents are now female. Nearly half of the 20 universities ranked highest by Forbes will have a female president this fall, including MIT, Harvard, and Columbia. Of course, feminist bean-counters in the media and advocacy world are not impressed, noting that “only” 5 percent of the 130 top U.S. research universities are headed by a black female and “only” 22 percent of those federal grant-magnets have a non-intersectional (i.e., white) female head.

These female leaders emerge from an ever more female campus bureaucracy, whose size is reaching parity with the faculty. Females made up 66 percent of college administrators in 2021; those administrators constitute an essential force in campus diversity ideology, whether they have “diversity” in their job titles or not. Among the official diversity bureaucrats installed in their posts since July 2022, females predominate: the vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of California, San Diego

[karpov]

In Pygmalion, Professor Higgins asked, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" That's unrealistic, but why can't more be like Heather Mac Donald? She'd make a good Secretary of Education. And the confirmation hearings would be fun.

If higher education is irredeemable, it should stop getting federal and state money.

[packagingguy]

A friend of mine works for a technical college where they train young people how to maintenance and repair tractors. combines, diesel locomotives and such.

I am sure their graduates have higher placement rates in their field of study than do typical university graduates.

[nwrep]

I hope they don’t have any female bureaucrats in that college.

[Organic Panic]

AND they will still complain about too many men in colleges.

[Texas resident]

Looks like colleges are being overtaken buy man haters.

[Regulator]

They want to run the place, say they “own” the land?

Let them fight for it.

Reinstate the Draft. Exclude White males, they’ve done enough. The women and non-whites want it? Let them fight Vlad and Xi for it.

[Da Coyote]

There are few real academics in academia now. STEM struggles, but when we hear that diff eq solutions are a function of race, not boundary conditions, and that quantum entanglement has a hidden variable - and it is white supremacy, all is truly lost.

[A Navy Vet]

Now that She’s got all her required degree credentials in place as well a mid-level power positions, I wonder how many young minds she will fill with her socialist, Marxist, communist mush over her tenure? Hundreds if not thousands will flock to her like a flies on shit and they will spread the crap. Scary, isn’t it?

[TalBlack]

This slide in to feminization was allowed by men. When Med school went co-ed and “not enough” females made the cut the feminazis demanded the standards be lowered to rectify this. Standards began to be lowered in 1970. Harvard, if I recall. Who was running things in 1970? The hypocrisy and pure stupidity of the feminists and their demand is mind blowing but who is running things these days? Id love to know what the hell those men were thinking.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

This university like most in the is committing suicide.

It will be gone in 15-20 years.

[Rummyfan]

Sometimes a single incident efficiently summarizes a larger trend. So it is with New York University’s selection of its new president, Linda Mills, a licensed clinical social worker and an NYU social work professor. She researches trauma and bias, as well as race and gender in the legal academy. She is a documentary filmmaker and teaches advocacy filmmaking. She serves as an NYU vice chancellor and as a senior vice provost for Global Programs and University Life. In all these roles, Mills is the very embodiment of the contemporary academy.

What a load of pseudo-academic booshwa. Trauma? I don't think physical trauma as I see no medical background....

[scrabblehack]

“it will be easier to get laid.”

[TChad]

Heather MacDonald 1

Linda Mills 0

Good article.

[frank ballenger]

Looks like colleges are being overtaken buy man haters.

Hate to tell you but that ship sailed a long time ago.

[TalBlack]

“it will be easier to get laid.”

So simple it genius!