SUNY Running Institute to Train Faculty as ‘DEI Practitioners’
“SUNY has boldly committed to becoming the most inclusive University System in the country”
There are schools across the country that are just ignoring executive orders and public sentiment and doing what they want to do.
Campus Reform reports:
SUNY runs semester-long institute to train faculty as ‘DEI practitioners’
The State University of New York (SUNY) sponsors an annual semester-long “Institute for DEI Professionals” that trains professors to be better “DEI practitioners.”
Next year’s rendition of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) institute will run from January to June. It’s open to SUNY employees who hold a master’s degree and “[e]xhibit proven leadership experience and a clear professional trajectory that aligns with advancing DEI work within their organization.”
SUNY describes the institute as a “rigorous and immersive program designed to advance the skills and leadership capacity of DEI practitioners by focusing on a wide range of topics and disciplinary areas with an emphasis on promoting and impacting diversity, equity, and inclusion through inclusive teaching, student support, and service to the campus community.”
“To advance SUNY’s diversity, equity, and inclusion pillar, SUNY has boldly committed to becoming the most inclusive University System in the country – where all students, faculty and staff regardless of background feel welcome and supported,” the description continues.
Throughout the program, participants will attend virtual sessions, in-person meetings, a conference, and a graduation ceremony in June.
The university will fund “the cost of meetings, materials, and speakers, as well as breakfast and lunch during in-person sessions.” Applicants must provide a “personal statement outlining the applicant’s experience in DEI.”
SUNY’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), which “aspires to strengthen diversity as an integral component of academic excellence,” organizes the annual institute.
SUNY’s institute could conflict with President Donald Trump’s January executive order, which threatens the loss of federal funding for universities that continue to sponsor DEI programs.
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This is a very complicated and expensive system for virtue signaling.
The only way they can become the most diverse school in the country is by having the lowest academic standards in the country.
“…enemies, foreign and domestic.”
There ain’t no expiration date on that oath.
(2 July 1975, if anybody’s interested)
This is what comes from focusing all attention upon a handful of high prestige universities and ignoring the rest. People have been assuming that hyper-woke indoctrination is a problem of the elites. It is not: the rot is all-pervasive, and needs to be fought at a general level.
SUNY spans everything from community colleges through Cornell’s four statutory colleges, so from open enrollment to Ivy League.
It is not clear whether the DEI officials at the individual Cornell SUNY funded units would be eligible for the institute.
To some extent this is a non-story. It is clear that Governor Hochul supports DEI, so that the HR/DEI staff of SUNY will continue to train the HR staff on the individual campuses.
What is not clear is whether the institute will cover recent court cases and executive orders.