The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: ChemEngrMBA on January 20, 2020, 07:17:40 pm
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https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/colleges-dupe-parents-and-taxpayers-walter-williams (https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/12/colleges-dupe-parents-and-taxpayers-walter-williams)
Colleges have been around for centuries. College students have also been around for centuries. Yet, college administrators assume that today's students have needs that were unknown to their predecessors. Those needs include diversity and equity personnel, with massive budgets to accommodate.
According to Minding the Campus, Penn State University's Office of Vice Provost for Educational Equity employs 66 staff members. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of 93 full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts and coordinators. Amherst College, with a student body of 1,800 students employs 19 diversity people. Top college diversity bureaucrats earn salaries six figures, in some cases approaching $500,000 per year. In the case of the University of Michigan, a quarter (26) of their diversity officers earn annual salaries of more than $100,000. If you add generous fringe benefits and other expenses, you could easily be talking about $13 million a year in diversity costs. The Economist reports that University of California, Berkeley, has 175 diversity bureaucrats.
Diversity officials are a growing part of a college bureaucracy structure that outnumbers faculty by 2 to 2.5 depending on the college. According to "The Campus Diversity Swarm," an article from Mark Pulliam, a contributing editor at Law and Liberty, which appeared in the City Journal (10/10/2018), diversity people assist in the cultivation of imaginary grievances of an ever-growing number of "oppressed" groups. Pulliam writes: "The mission of campus diversity officers is self-perpetuating. Affirmative action (i.e., racial and ethnic preferences in admissions) leads to grievance studies. Increased recognition of LGBTQ rights requires ever-greater accommodation by the rest of the student body. Protecting 'vulnerable' groups from 'hate speech' and 'microaggressions' requires speech codes and bias-response teams (staffed by diversocrats). Complaints must be investigated and adjudicated (by diversocrats). Fighting 'toxic masculinity' and combating an imaginary epidemic of campus sexual assault necessitate consent protocols, training, and hearing procedures — more work for an always-growing diversocrat cadre. Each newly recognized problem leads to a call for more programs and staffing."
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Every time something arises about College, I immediately stop, look and listen.
Now it's DIVERSITY!
Reflect a moment and consider;
How did the likes of Plato, Sophocles, Euclid, Caesar, Virgil, Ockham, Galileo,
Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Vivaldi; to name but a handful, ever manage to
survive and thrive w/o exposure to DIVERSITY in a modern college setting?
It absolutely boggles the brain, don't it ?????????
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If we want to stop this, only give federal and state money for real world majors and studies. No more psychobabble, lefty activist majors.
If the schools want that, make the donors pay for it.
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Yous guyses is smart I tell ya.
Smart.
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John Dewey and his fellow travelers are ecstatic over the situation.
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On a related note:
Ideology or just bizarre? 10 dumbfounding gender studies courses on tap this semester
Ellie Gardey - University of Notre Dame
January 21, 2020
ANALYSIS: The field of women’s, gender and feminist studies hardly looks serious
Women’s, gender and feminist studies — which are now in over 700 universities across the country — have faced many accusations of prioritizing the ideological over the academic. ...
The move prompted the American Association of University Professors to issue a statement to “reiterate the necessity of robust gender studies,†saying: “It is they who are offering ‘gender ideology’ by attempting to override the insights of serious scholars.†...
Here are 10 gender studies courses offered this spring 2020 semester, plus one more from last fall, which reveal the subject matter, methods, and motives of the controversial field. ...
“Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films†— Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is offering “Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films†this spring semester to study the “sexuality and gender constructions†of Indian women in Bollywood dance sequences. “The place of the erotic†in Bollywood dance sequences will also be examined based on film studies. ...
Read more at The College Fix (https://www.thecollegefix.com/ideology-or-just-bizarre-10-dumbfounding-gender-studies-courses-on-tap-this-semester/)
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@mountaineer I am unable to give you a LIKE much less a STUPENDOUS for your link to Leftist insanity. But I repeat myself.
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@mountaineer I am unable to give you a LIKE much less a STUPENDOUS for your link to Leftist insanity. But I repeat myself.
We have a like feature, but if we turn it on it messes things up, so we've left it off.
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It has been said that we have not had the three R’s in America, we had the six R’s; remedial readin’, remedial ‘ritin’ and remedial ‘rithmetic. – Robert Maynard Hutchins (also Maynard Hutchins) (1899–1977) educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927-1929), a president of the University of Chicago (1929–1945) and its chancellor (1945–1951).
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. – William Lowe Bryan (1860–1955) 10th president of Indiana University (1902 to 1937).
November, 2017 A YouGov survey found that more millenials would rather live in a socialist (44%) or communist (7%) country than a capitalist one (42%). America and our once cherished ideals are doomed.
“In 1950, we spent (in 1989 dollars) $1,333 per student. In 1989 we spent $4931. As John Silber, the President of Boston University, has written, ‘It is troubling that this nearly fourfold increase in real spending has brought no improvement. It is scandalous that it has not prevented substantial decline.’ †– William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education, in The De-Valuing of America
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We have a like feature, but if we turn it on it messes things up, so we've left it off.
Leftists mess things up everywhere they go. Please leave them off, permanently.
Thank you very much, yeah.
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Leftists mess things up everywhere they go. Please leave them off, permanently.
Thank you very much, yeah.
There are some 'thumbs up' emojis that work well in the 'more' link.
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There are some 'thumbs up' emojis that work well in the 'more' link.
It requires an entirely new post to give a thumbs up emoji to a previous link. This squanders precious electrons and requires members to scroll down, wearing out their keys and fingers.
Let's conserve, shall we? Mayor Bloomberg orders you to do just that, before he climbs into his limousine to ride his private jet to go to one of his ten mansions.
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Ya gotta blame the parents, the schools and the lenders.
The lender ought to make the parent, the schools, potential employers guarantee any loans.
NOT American taxpayers.