Cornell Renames Diversity Office as Office of Academic Discovery and Impact
The new name “aligns with the OADI mission and vision and the key goals of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education 一 curiosity and connection.”
Why do schools think that changing the words is sufficient? We keep seeing this.
The Cornell Daily Sun reports:
Cornell Renames Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives to Office of Academic Discovery and Impact
Cornell has officially renamed its Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives to the Office of Academic Discovery and Impact as of Friday, according to an email sent to Pre Professional Programs scholars by Kristin Dade, director of OADI.
The Friday email, which was signed off by OADI Director William “Woodg” Horning, Dade and the entire OADI team, describes that the “very exciting” name change followed “think[ing] strategically about who we are and how all students see us across campus.”
The new name “aligns with the OADI mission and vision and the key goals of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education 一 curiosity and connection,” according to the email obtained by The Sun.
The office wanted to maintain the “signature moniker of ‘OADI’” due to its Arabic and Swahili meaning, according to the email. OADI’s website states that the word “refers to a cool protected passage route/valley through a desert, often formed by a seasonal river.”
The new name highlights OADI’s centering of “‘discovery’ for scholars as they approach and proceed through their academic journey” and the “‘impact’” each scholar brings to campus, according to the email.
According to its website, OADI works to ensure all students have equal access to educational and pre-professional programs and resources by offering academic support, scholarships, mentorship and community events. OADI’s origin spans back to 1963, through the historic Committee on Special Education Projects, which has been renamed and reorganized several times since.
“The new OADI emerged as a way for students to see themselves in our space be they first generation, low income, foster youth, Veterans, non-traditional, transfer, students from diverse backgrounds and/or any other student that finds space in our community,” the email reads.
In March, the University temporarily removed its diversity, equity and inclusion references and discrimination resources from its Equal Education and Employment Opportunity Statement. However, the University quickly adjusted the statement back to its near-original condition and explained the original revision as a “clerical error.”
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“Tomato, tomahto”. They should call the whole thing off…..but are too dumb and invested in discrimination and racism.
It will take another Long March Through the Institutions to rid academia of its Marxist indoctrination, a march that will be lengthy, expensive, and will take discipline and intense focus to accomplish.
A toilet bowl that has mineralized over three years can be remedied with a pumice stone in 15 minutes.
an accounting of allll tax money to allll schools should be #1 on the gops list of those whose job it is that we pay them to do>>investigate
they can call themselves whatever they want after the prison sentences are handed down
“Office of Academic Discovery and Impact”
Sounds like a school that graduates incompetent air traffic controllers.
“the “very exciting” name change… The office wanted to maintain the “signature moniker of ‘OADI’” due to its Arabic and Swahili meaning”
Dear Cornell: Please put some serious adults in charge of your s*t.
Thank you.
Personnel is policy. Changing the name but keeping the people changes nothing.
Here was a great opportunity for Cornell to reduce its overhead. It looks like they chose otherwise.
But they are supremely experienced at hanging KICK ME signs on their own backs.
The Left is too deeply entrenched within our institutions. The only way to eliminate them is to shut the institution down, get rid of everybody and start over from scratch. Anything less is doomed to failure.