Arizona State U. Faculty Refuse to Vote on Proposal to Ban Land Acknowledgments at Meetings
“Faculty meetings should remain about faculty business.”
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 acknowledgements
A 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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Those ASU staff have an inverted loyalty. Why should the government fund them?
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We need to find a troublemaker among the Yavapai, Pimas, or Gila Rivers — whichever ones ancestrally held that land — to show up at one of their meetings and lodge a formal claim to their property. Bring journalists.
He should acknowledge that ASU sits on mostly unusuable desert and thank the American settlers who brought damns and irrigation.
Oops, major thud.
As a matter of historical fact, the white settlers found Indian built irrigation canals when they got here, that saved them a whole lot of work.
Wickenburg, where I live, was born as a gold strike community (we still have a major working mine). When it grew too fast, an exploratory party had to be sent out to search for farmland. They followed the Hassayampa river southeast until they got to the Phoenix area, which they found already supplied with irrigation trenches and canals, and fertile land. Phoenix was in fact founded as Wickenburg’s farm community.
Hey, maybe WE have some kind of a historical claim to the ASU campus.
There were some primitive ones, in they way Indians had paths that predate the interstate highway.
But not everywhere and probably not on the Tempe Town lake whereupon ASU resides. Such as Mesa where the LDS had to ‘clear’ Indian ‘canals’ that had not been used in centuries.
We visited in Wickenburg a few years ago, and it is indeed some beautiful country. But drive a few minutes out of town and it becomes obvious that humans “own” nothing. We are all just passing through.
That these institutions of higher learning are requiring land acknowledgements, in effect prayers of forgiveness to long departed stone age peoples generally implying but not actually stating that the land was stolen. The various institutions have no intent to materially address their presumptuously ill gotten land titles. I would suggest that instead and arguably more usefully to the purpose of universities these institutions of higher learning should be praying to the long departed stone age peoples for wisdom and guidance. Now that would be a sight to behold – puffed up professors, serious guardians of deep knowledge and high morals, praying to stone age peoples.
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