Multicultural Student Services at UVA Holding Four Identity-Based Orientation Events
“UVA, as you all know, ought to be a place where everyone feels welcome, and spaces are an important part of that”
Does anyone involved in the planning of this even recognize how divisive it is?
Campus Reform reports:
UVA Muliticultural Student Services hosts four identity-based orientation events
The University of Virginia’s Multicultural Student Services is offering four identity-based receptions later this month as part of the school’s broader orientation programming for incoming freshmen.
The receptions will occur on Tuesday, August 27, in the corresponding identity-based student centers, which comprise Multicultural Student Services. These are the “Asian American Student Center,” “LGBTQ Center,” “Latinx Student Center,” and “Multicultural Student Center.”
Other identity-based orientation events include the “Middle/Eastern/North African Mentoring Program” and “Hispanic/Latinx Mentoring Tailgate.” A “Queer Brunch” will take place later in the semester on September 30.
The identity student centers in their current form were created in 2020, with the school providing $500,000 in funding per UVA Today, the university’s news center. The school said at the time that the projects assist in its commitment to “continuously promote and strengthen an inclusive community of trust.”
“UVA, as you all know, ought to be a place where everyone feels welcome, and spaces are an important part of that,” President Jim Ryan said at the time.
According to an Instagram post from Multicultural Student Services, the centers began hosting identity-based receptions in 2021. In 2022, the department also provided receptions for “Middle Eastern/North African” and “Native/Indigenous” students.
The University of Virginia has a history of prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. Earlier this year, Campus Reform reported that the school would be hosting several segregated graduation events, including multicultural and LGBTQ-identifying students. This was after a report revealed that the University of Virginia spends $20 million annually on DEI staff positions alone.
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“UVA, as you all know, ought to be a place where everyone feels welcome, and spaces are an important part of that.”
Over here, we have a couch space where Larry, Kent, Mahomet, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton can feel welcome.
Nicely done, Mr. Bowman.
From 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuFCaIAnETk&pp=ygUSTGFycnkgS2VudCBKdWdkaXNo
Ooh, the ironies.
Maybe about 20 years ago, when colleges and universities were trying to come up with universal rules forbidding professors and students from — ahem — socializing …
the president of UVA apparently stood up and said, “Well, I dated the graduate student whom I was supervising, and we’ve been happily married ever since …….. with grown children.
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Ever been to UVA? You drive through normalAmerica, and then you get to what can only be described as the most expensive-looking country club that you might ever see if you live to be 99. Literally, a weird, jarring experience. Like Versailles’s grounds. Weird.
It’s just a slight modification of what George Corley Wallace said:
“In the name of the greatest people that have ever [enforced Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion], I draw the line in the dust and [raise] the gauntlet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.”
My own former employer is having segregated faculty events. I don’t think they even have a clue.