Georgetown Students Disappointed the Orientation Program is No Longer ‘Identity-Focused’
“That was really helpful in terms of understanding how identity intersects and plays a role in how you operate on a college campus.”
The academic left is completely lost without identity politics. We see this over and over again.
The College Fix reports:
Georgetown U. students miffed pre-orientation program no longer ‘identity-focused’
A Georgetown University student paper investigation has revealed the school’s Center for Multicultural Equity & Access “sunsetted an identity-driven pre-orientation program” over a year ago “amid” Trump administration “attacks” on DEI measures.
According to The Hoya, the center’s Young Leaders in Education, Advocacy & Dialogue program, aka YLEAD, was changed last August to Total Hoya Readiness: Intro to Vocation and Experience, or THRIVE, which no longer has programming related to identity and diversity.
YLEAD used to “foster dialogue” about “ability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, and social class,” according to the Hoya’s review of the center’s archived webpages.
Solene DeGaynor, a former YLEAD participant who later became a THRIVE coordinator, said she was “disappointed” the university moved away from the original program.
“We did a lot of presentations on what it means to be a woman on campus, what it means to be a person of color in a predominantly white institution,” DeGaynor said. “That was really helpful in terms of understanding how identity intersects and plays a role in how you operate on a college campus.”
DeGaynor added that the new THRIVE is more about “academic success” and “access[ing] to all of the resources” at Georgetown.
Former YLEAD peer leader Dani Scott said YLEAD was “an important support system for incoming students of color and international students,” and that it helped students with “all these different identities” navigate a “predominantly white institution.”
“It was very much focusing on making people feel safe before they even got there and making sure that they knew that there was community there,” she said.
Scott added “I wish that Georgetown has stayed a little bit stronger and truer to the mission that they said that they were creating […] I feel like potentially there was a robbing of a certain community that Georgetown could have cultivated.”
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Poor bay-bees. Bless their hearts.
Yeah, I’m from the South. How could you tell?
“That was really helpful in terms of understanding how identity intersects and plays a role in how you operate on a college campus.”
In other news, students protested against the removal of electives dedicated to phlogiston theory, phrenology, spontaneous generation, and geocentrism.,
Drilling down a bit further into the specifics of the article, it’s clear the headline should have emphasized: “Georgetown Students Who Used to Run Identity-Focused Orientation Program Disappointed at Its Discontinuation.”
It’s not like all the incoming freshman are whining, “Gee, where’s all that tasty DEI crap I expected to find here when I signed up?” And that’s a good thing, because it implies that high schools haven’t yet entirely corrupted them.
Meanwhile, we’re seeing increasing numbers of fatal collisions at dangerous intersection-alities..
Muslim Shooting Outside Tucson Gay Bar Killed Palestine Sympathizer
(who was also an Antifa star… twofer!)
So two people that are involved in the progressive movement now constitutes “Georgetown Students”?
I suppose technically they are students at Georgetown, but the headline implies general consensus, not “a couple of cherry picked examples”.
You could find two people that hold any number of otherwise unpopular views.
Yes. There is an unfortunate tendency in news reports to make a few cherry-picked individuals from a large group into typical representatives. This is particularly true of students from a particular school. This often feeds rage at the whole of that group. Headlines like “Podunk College students riot” when ten students were drunk and disorderly create a false impression; a demonstration by fewer than 50 students reported as “State U. Protests Unfairness” may create the impression that the majority on campus were involved. It is lazy and inaccurate reporting.
But it supports “the narrative” so there’s that.
I’m surprised no college has required ancestry DNA analysis to determine Social Justice ranking.
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