They won’t even vote on it because this nonsense is very important to progressives.
The College Fix reports:
ASU faculty refuse to vote on proposal to ban land acknowledgementsA recent proposal to end land acknowledgments at faculty business meetings for Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science was rejected before reaching the floor.Instead, professors approved a resolution to make a Native American land acknowledgement official policy and continue to read it before every faculty meeting.“My motion to keep meetings non-political and no longer have a required land acknowledgement read at the beginning of every meeting failed. And this is important: they voted to not even vote on it,” Professor Owen Anderson told The College Fix.Each faculty meeting begins with a statement acknowledging the campus “sits on Native American land,” he said in an interview, adding he believes this conflicts with university bylaws that prohibit using faculty meeting time for political purposes.“They did not even want to allow it to come to a vote,” he said, describing the decision as censorship. “Faculty meetings should remain about faculty business.”In a copy of his proposal shared with The Fix, Anderson argued faculty meetings should remain focused on their “academic and administrative purpose,” adding that such acknowledgments undermine institutional neutrality and “privilege one political framework.”“If the acknowledgment is non-political and merely a neutral expression, then there is no reason to limit the time to one type of statement,” Anderson wrote. “Other faculty should be equally free to offer alternative acknowledgments or expressions.”Anderson, a well-known outspoken Christian conservative professor on campus, said he first raised concerns with the faculty meeting chair, who declined to make changes, and later with the college dean, who also rejected the request.He then introduced a formal motion at the meeting March 31, but his peers ultimately voted not to bring it to the floor, he said.In his argument to colleagues, Anderson had pointed out: “If the acknowledgment is non-political and merely a neutral expression, then there is no reason to limit the time to one type of statement. Other faculty should be equally free to offer alternative acknowledgments or expressions.”
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