Western Washington University Strives to be Less White
Apparently, diversity is much more important than academics. Good grades and student achievements… Who cares about those things?
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.
University calls the amount of white people on campus a ‘failure,’ asks for ideas on how to have fewer
school-wide questionnaire at Western Washington University (WWU) asked the community “How do we make sure that in future years ‘we are not as white as we are today?’”
The question, released through the communications and marketing department’s daily newsletter Western Today, comes on the heels of admonishments given in multiple convocation addresses by WWU President Bruce Shepard for the university’s “failure” to be less white.
“Every year, from this stage and at this time, you have heard me say that, if in decades ahead, we are as white as we are today, we will have failed as university,” Shepard said in the 2012 speech.
And in a recent blog post on WWU’s website, Shepard echoes these sentiments, saying those who do not agree “have not thought through the implications of what is ahead for us or, more perniciously, assume we can continue unchanged.”
“In the decades ahead, should we be as white as we are today, we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or, become a sad shadow of our current self,” he wrote.
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University calls the amount of white people on campus a ‘failure,’ asks for ideas on how to have fewer (Campus Reform)
Comments
Bigotry is cool.
If I were a white student at that university, I would help them realize their goal today quite simply by withdrawing/transferring to another school.
It’s not the color of the students’ skin that makes for a good school; it’s their willingness to work hard when they are well taught.