Some Colleges Think Diversity is More Important Than Education
Browse higher education news for a few days and you’ll lose count of the times that the word diversity is mentioned.
Harry Painter of the Pope Center writes about it in a new post.
All diversity, all the time, everybody, right now
It often seems as though the central mission of higher education today is promoting diversity. Diversity—which usually means racial, religious, and sexual diversity—is commonly accepted by most administrators as crucial to the success of the 21st-century university. More and more universities are adopting diversity requirements and training, and creating entire departments to achieve diversity and inclusivity on campus.
Especially troubling is the possibility that the diversity agenda may be masking an intention to transform our already diverse, pluralistic society into something very conformist and un-American.
That agenda already permeates much of what the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill does and says. And a recent UNC-Chapel Hill event illustrates the extreme ends that diversity advocates are aiming for.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s mission statement calls for teaching a “diverse community” of students. It houses a multitude of on-campus resources, such as the Carolina Women’s Center; the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Center; and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. In March, it launched a series of “Carolina Conversations” to provide a platform for students to discuss controversial topics, especially race relations. The university was also recently sued for its policy allowing racial preferences in admissions.
As much as it is already doing, UNC is aggressively pursuing still more diversity initiatives. On April 14, the 50-member Provost Committee on Inclusive Excellence and Diversity (PCIED), made up of staff members, faculty, and students, hosted a presentation titled “Exploring the Institutional Diversity Framework at Carolina.”
All diversity, all the time, everybody, right now (The John William Pope Center)
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The only problem is that “diversity” like global warming is a settled science and if you don’t like the group speak and bow down to the thoughts of the Prog collective – it is “shut up” name calling and trying to get you disciplined or made to take more collective gulag courses.
Diversity is having a LBQT, POC seminar to discuss diversity where straight people and white people are not only not welcome but the stay the heck away is actually put on the flier.
The current Diversity climate is trigger warnings and microaggressions where the people setting up what is a trigger or microaggression are the Progs with an agenda.
So they can’t see the people for the “diversity” (ie. labeling everyone and naming calling) just like the climate hoaxers can’t see the weather for all the “climate change”. Besides the total BS factor both situations are driven by the pursuit of power, totalitarianism, and $$$ for the Prog elite.
Recently I was being solicited by one of the major grants representatives from my undergraduate alma mater, a respected liberal arts school. After listening to her go on rapturously about the usual PC topics I politely interrupted by saying that “The typical university, and especially a prestigious one, should go through their catalog and faculty directory. Anything with the words “green,” “sustainable,” “renewable,” “biodiversity,” “gender,” “ethnic,” “diversity, or “multicultural” should be zeroed out. This would benefit the students so they could spend their time on things which mattered, the university because of the otherwise wasted funds it would free up, and society because the graduates would not have their heads full of nonsense. Her look was both priceless and disheartening.
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There are modern universities left. Most are simply diversiversities: post-modern pagan indoctrination centers which exist primarily to perpetuate themselves and deconstruct the civil society.
I always wonder who is picking up the tab for university students demanding more diversity.
The staff of Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen used to joke that the “final frontier” of civil rights is “Ugly Rights.”
Do these colleges and universities have enough “ugly” people in their “diverse” community ?