The Dalton School has been in the news over its embrace of Critical Race Theory and the effort of parents to push back.
Now the school’s diversity director is out. It’s not clear if he quit or was fired.
The New York Post reports:
Head of diversity at Dalton School leaving ‘in pursuit of...
Schools aren’t even fully reopened, but the left isn’t letting a crisis go to waste.
WGBH reports:
Citing Racial Inequities, Boston Public Schools Suspend New Advanced Learning Classes
A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program,...
Jodi Shaw is the former Smith College staff member who blew the whistle on horrific mandatory white-shaming training programs at the college. We have covered Shaw’s situation for several months:
This is easy to believe because diversity has become an industry within higher education.
David Acevedo reports at the National Association of Scholars:
Exclusive: Univ. of Utah Proposes Allegiance to DEI as a Condition for Promotion and Tenure
The University of Utah (U of U) Department of Physics & Astronomy is the latest to...
The group plans educational events. Sounds like such fun.
Campus Reform reports:
‘Menstrual Equity Club’ forms at Boise State
An officially recognized student organization at Boise State University is aimed at promoting “menstrual equity.”
The “Menstrual Equity Club” formed in 2019 with the mission of raising awareness about period poverty and menstrual health. The group...
If Joe Biden is sworn in as president in January, expect higher ed to have a more significant voice at the White House. This is just the beginning.
Campus Reform reports:
UVA pr...
This is required left wing indoctrination. Students will learn the ways of the left or they won’t learn anything at all.
Campus Reform reports:
EXCLUSIVE: MIT mandates diversity training; one student calls it ‘indoctrination’
Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent an email to students informing them that if they didn’t complete diversity, equity, and inclusion...
Kamala Harris tweeted an animated video which sounds familiar to those of us who have lived or followed radical leftist campus politics. The video espouses “equity” over “equality.”
A fashionable, and now pervasive, euphemism for racial quotas is “equity.”
That term should not be confused with “equality” or “equal opporunity,” as I explained in my post, NY Times Chief Classical Music Critic: End “blind auditions,” pick orchestra musicians based on race and gender:
Holding such a sign is not very inclusive, is it?
The Battle Creek Enquirer reports:
Kellogg Community College eliminates administrator’s job in wake of Trump protest
This must have made any students who support Trump feel very equal and included. Just goes to show diversity administration in higher education is about the politics of the left.
Campus Reform reports:
Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer flashes Trump, McConnell profanity-laced sign
A head inclusion officer at one Michigan school is in hot...
Professor Stephen Bainbridge of UCLAW is up for a merit raise and needed to submit a diversity letter to his administration. It’s great.
From his blog:
I submit herewith my “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” statement for my merit raise at UCLAW
As regular readers know, I’m up for a merit raise at UCLAW this...
Perhaps this is one of those umbrella terms that can cover a range of things.
The College Fix reports:
Officials at Penn State can’t say what ‘equity promotion’ means on the school’s budget
The budget for Pennsylvania State University’s 2019-2020 academic year includes funds devoted to “equity promotion,” but it’s not clear that university...
It has been a while since we have heard anything about Evergreen State, but it doesn’t sound like much has changed.
The College Fix reports:
As Evergreen State’s enrollment continues to tank, it hosts white-blaming ‘equity symposium’
You remember The Evergreen State College, right? It became fodder for national headlines in 2017 as a...
Isn’t it funny how liberal student groups never have to deal with things like this? It always goes in only one direction.
The Washington Examiner reports:
University sending ‘equity officer’ to investigate conservative group over Ben Shapiro speech
Baylor University, a Baptist university in Texas, has arranged to have an “equity officer” investigate the...
Every field in academia will eventually be subjected to social justice focused scrutiny.
The College Fix reports:
University of Virginia trains faculty, staff on how to ‘stop graduating racists’
The University of Virginia recently hosted a series of training sessions on “institutional equity” in order to address racial bias in teaching and learning.
Put on...
Not only are more schools adding this pointless role to their administrations, they’re paying big money for it. Why?
Campus Reform reports:
College doles out $120k to ‘eradicate equity gaps’
A Washington State college is offering $120,000 to $130,000...
