Left wing activists at the school pushed for this and of course they got what they wanted. Professor Jacobson is quoted in the story.
FOX News reports:
DEI refuses to DIE. Just look at Cornell’s new Center for Racial JusticeHarvard and the University of Pennsylvania might be momentarily off their footing, but far from retreating, the Ivy League Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) agenda is barreling ahead. Cornell University is set to debut its new Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, committed to enforcing DEI across the faculty, administration and student body.The center is designed to be “a permanent, institutionally-supported unit” to tackle “the anti-Black racism” that is apparently “raging” at Cornell, in America, and across the world. Far from looking toward the future, as the name suggests, the center is geared toward cartoonish interpretations of the past, rooting out the “ongoing effects of a settler colonialism underwritten by principles of white supremacy.”Some proposed initiatives include pushing ideological allies into positions “in all academic units and decision-making bodies,” money for DEI grants, required DEI classes, and programs for Ivy League students DEI deems marginalized (based on their skin color, not their income or actual life stories).The new center is the brainchild of aggressive left-wing student activists, who used George Floyd’s death to achieve a list of political demands that were years in the making. Those include establishing an “Alternative Justice Board” to punish fellow students and student organization who run afoul of DEI, university funding for Black racial activist groups, disarming and defunding the campus police, and even firing 40-year Cornell professor David Collum. Collum’s thought crime was tweeting in support of police. Activists wanted him replaced with a black professor…”Something has gone very wrong at Cornell,” Cornell Law professor and Legal Insurrection blogger William A. Jacobson explained to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in October. “[E]verything is viewed through race… And so we’ve got a toxic atmosphere,” he explained. “But the administration and the Board of Trustees don’t seem to understand what they have created.”While the flurry of radical activity was initially touted in press releases, the administration went quiet on the new center after the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israeli civilians exposed mass pro-Hamas sympathies in the Ivy League DEI left, including on Cornell’s campus.
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