Teh One Who Knocks
02-07-2017, 01:02 PM
By Ian Miles Cheong - Heat Street
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Barnard College, the prestigious women’s only institution, has announced plans to hire professors based on their ethnicity—the color of their skin—for the “demonstrated benefits” having a non-white faculty. The decision was made after a year of planning and organization by the Barnard College Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion.
The task force is made up of student, faculty, and members of the college’s administration, including its Board of Trustees and admissions department.
Per The College Fix, the task force released a draft of recommendations (archive link) last week to improve the college’s “representation, inclusion, and social justice” and infuse them into classrooms and campus life. The task force aims to promote structural changes within the liberal arts college and build its campus community around these stated aims.
The recommendations are part of the modern “intersectional feminist” movement sweeping campuses across North America.
Last year, the college announced that it will welcome any applicants who “live and identify as women,” including those designated male at birth. However, transgender students who are biologically female but identify as men will not be allowed in.
As part of the draft, the college is set to hire 10 new non-white faculty members, or “members from underrepresented groups” within the next five years. The draft talks of the demonstrated benefits (without any citations) of doing so, stating that non-white faculty display “better learning outcomes and campus climate, enhanced support for underrepresented students and faculty.”
It is unclear whether the 10 new faculty members will be paid per class, or tenured at the college. The drafts also recommend creating new positions for chief diversity officer and a new Diversity Council to serve the campus’s constituencies in an advisory capacity.
Beyond simply hiring new staff, the draft recommendations state that everyone at Barnard College must be involved in the effort to increase “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” There will be mandatory workshops on social justice for students and faculty to attend, focusing on “developing cultural competence with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, class, disability, sexuality, religion, and intersectionality.”
The draft does not specify how they intend to enforce workshop attendance, or punish those who refuse to participate. It simply says that everyone will be expected to participate.
What better way to promote intersectional feminism than by forcing it down the throats of students? It’s doubtful that anything students learn in the workshop will have any real-world applicability outside of activist circles.
Barnard College, which is part of Columbia University, acknowledges that it will require an immense amount of money to go through with their plans to make the college “woke.” The draft recommends launching a fundraiser to acquire the capital.
http://i.imgur.com/vXZG5eSh.png
Barnard College, the prestigious women’s only institution, has announced plans to hire professors based on their ethnicity—the color of their skin—for the “demonstrated benefits” having a non-white faculty. The decision was made after a year of planning and organization by the Barnard College Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion.
The task force is made up of student, faculty, and members of the college’s administration, including its Board of Trustees and admissions department.
Per The College Fix, the task force released a draft of recommendations (archive link) last week to improve the college’s “representation, inclusion, and social justice” and infuse them into classrooms and campus life. The task force aims to promote structural changes within the liberal arts college and build its campus community around these stated aims.
The recommendations are part of the modern “intersectional feminist” movement sweeping campuses across North America.
Last year, the college announced that it will welcome any applicants who “live and identify as women,” including those designated male at birth. However, transgender students who are biologically female but identify as men will not be allowed in.
As part of the draft, the college is set to hire 10 new non-white faculty members, or “members from underrepresented groups” within the next five years. The draft talks of the demonstrated benefits (without any citations) of doing so, stating that non-white faculty display “better learning outcomes and campus climate, enhanced support for underrepresented students and faculty.”
It is unclear whether the 10 new faculty members will be paid per class, or tenured at the college. The drafts also recommend creating new positions for chief diversity officer and a new Diversity Council to serve the campus’s constituencies in an advisory capacity.
Beyond simply hiring new staff, the draft recommendations state that everyone at Barnard College must be involved in the effort to increase “diversity, inclusion, and equity.” There will be mandatory workshops on social justice for students and faculty to attend, focusing on “developing cultural competence with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, class, disability, sexuality, religion, and intersectionality.”
The draft does not specify how they intend to enforce workshop attendance, or punish those who refuse to participate. It simply says that everyone will be expected to participate.
What better way to promote intersectional feminism than by forcing it down the throats of students? It’s doubtful that anything students learn in the workshop will have any real-world applicability outside of activist circles.
Barnard College, which is part of Columbia University, acknowledges that it will require an immense amount of money to go through with their plans to make the college “woke.” The draft recommends launching a fundraiser to acquire the capital.