Dueling Petitions at Yale Divide Faculty Over Future Direction of the University
“calls for a return to the university’s mission of preserving, producing and transmitting knowledge by teaching objectively without an activist standpoint”
One faculty group wants to retain tradition and keep personal politics out of the classroom. Another group wants to embrace more DEI and LGBT.
The College Fix reports:
Dueling petitions at Yale have faculty divided over classroom politics
Hundreds of Yale University faculty have taken sides in a battle over the future direction of the school ahead of coming changes in the top administration.
One petition by a group known as Faculty For Yale calls for a return to the university’s mission of preserving, producing and transmitting knowledge by teaching objectively without an activist standpoint.
The petition, signed by about 150 faculty over the past five months, supports the avoidance of partisan influence in lesson plans.
“Yale as an institution should not prescribe any moral or political positions as institutional orthodoxy or treat the failure to endorse such a position as grounds for sanction or exclusion, whether formal or informal,” it states. “Doing so thins our collective knowledge and experience and diminishes the truth-seeking enterprise in which we are all engaged.”
Accounting Professor Rick Antle, who signed the petition, said political issues do not come up much in his classes. But he said he sometimes uses current events as examples.
“For example, we have discussed the accounting rules for personal financial statements as the issue arose in the New York v. Donald J. Trump, et al and the particular objections to the financial statements that the defendants submitted in the process of obtaining loans,” Antle told The College Fix in a recent email…
Second petition supports ‘diversity,’ inclusion of BIPOC and LGBTQ+
After Faculty for Yale released its petition, another faculty group issued a different list of priorities for the university in the form of a letter to the next president. Current President Peter Salovey recently announced his plan to step down.
The letter, which had 215 signatories as of April 10, urges the next president to commit to “the advances that have changed Yale for the better in the recent decades,” including greater inclusion of “BIPOC and LGBTQ+” communities.
Yale must “reject faux-populist” and “politically motivated” attacks on universities and their DEI programs, the letter states. It also says “critical thought and free speech on campus require structural support and protection,” and “there is no excellence without diversity.”
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215 to 150…. So Yale officially garbage dumpster fire never hire graduates or allow into positions of power university..,, noted and cc’d to HR
So either there are 40+% more crazies than traditional scholars on the faculty of Yale, or somebody has been padding leftist petition signatures again.
Which University do you think has a better faculty rate than the one shown in the dueling petitions, and how exactly do you expect an aspiring doctor, biologist, lawyer, engineer, physicist etc to get to their careers without college?
We need to besiege these institutions and use the force of government as an iron fist to influence them.
Oh you mean the faculty rate of 90% Democrat of who 75% say they are liberal… that amazing rate? And gee wasn’t aware to be a lawyer, doctor, engineer etc you HAD to go to Yale…
The point still stands which university in the United States do you think is better?
Yale isn’t an outlier we need to fight to reclaim universities by laying siege to the institutions by use of government power.
Again how do you expect someone to become a doctor without going through the universities?
Is your position that a requirement for a conservative to become a doctor be learning fluent Hungarian first and moving back to the United States after they have gone through undergrad and med school?
Not necessarily Yale, but some large university with the needed graduate and professional programs—and almost all of them have been infected with the same disease. Therefore, we have to fight back, rather than run away.
go to hail..yale!
And be sent to Yail.
DEI/CRT is such a fraud. Faculty that are invested in that need to have their research reviewed for plagiarism.
“critical thought and free speech on campus require structural support and protection,” and “there is no excellence without diversity.” Really?! Seems there is very little diversity of thought allowed, nor is such diversity of thought/viewpoint allowed much free speech. Squelches by the mob groupthink.
Considering that the radicals have no qualms about trying to ruin the careers of those who oppose them, the 150 who signed the traditionalist academic petition were probably an undercount of those who sympathize with this position. A constant campaign is needed to call out and respond to those faculty members—everywhere, not just at Yale—who try to libel, harass, and destroy the careers of colleagues who take different political positions. And no, this isn’t hypocrisy: there is a clear difference between expressing one’s own political position and clearly trying to destroy someone who disagrees.