no deviation from deviant thought allowed
Posted on 02/10/2017 4:35:03 AM PST by markomalley
Liberals love diversity, as long as it’s only skin deep. Ideological diversity is a whole different ball game.
Casey Breznick reports at the Cornell Review:
Cornell Student Assembly Says No to Faculty Diversity
The Student Assembly (SA) struck down a resolution that would have requested for the creation of a committee to “increase and improve faculty ideological diversity” in a 10-11-1 vote on Thursday.
SA President Jordan Berger ’17, who can only vote in the event of a tie, provided the necessary thumbs down to the proposed diversity initiative.
The resolution, titled “Expanding Ideological Diversity among Faculty Members”, was put forth by SA representative Mitchell McBride ’17 and cited a Cornell Sun report from 2015 that found over 96% of Cornell faculty political donations went to Democrat campaigns or liberal/progressive causes.
The resolution reads in part: “universities ought to be places where debate and dissent exists in order to ensure knowledge is expanded” and “students can create better arguments and challenge subtle assumptions when dealing with differing viewpoints.” The full resolution can be read here.
A number Cornell College Republicans also supported the proposal.
According to Irvin McCullough ’18, a Cornell Republicans member present at the meeting, opponents of the resolution mainly argued the following three points: (1) conservatives have not been historically oppressed as have other groups; (2) spending resources on intellectual diversity diverts resources from promoting other forms of diversity; and (3) conservative students are free to speak out in class if they find something disagreeable or wish to argue their own point of view…
William Jacobson, Review faculty sponsor and professor at the Cornell Law School, is perhaps Cornell’s most outspoken conservative faculty member and runs the popular legal and political blog Legal Insurrection.
In a statement Jacobson described the resolution as “moderate and reasonable,” and noted it called for a committee to study the issue and not a specific outcome about faculty hiring or makeup.
“The rejection of the Resolution seems to highlight the need for the relief sought in the Resolution,” Jacobson said.
City of Evil ping
Cornell teams are called Big Red for a reason. My son went to Ithaca College for 1 semester and could not that the liberalism of the place so dropped out. There used to be a regular thread on FR called Ithaca: The city of evil.
The Communist tribunal has spoken, comrade.
I don’t want my money being used to indoctrinate these morons. Do away with student loans
And once they divest of all Fed funding they will certainly have that right...
“conservatives have not been historically oppressed as have other groups”
“hens have not been historically eaten as have other groups”, said the fox running the hen house.
So much for the ‘university ‘ of knowledge learning. This is the very antithesis of what a university should be. Morons. Back in the 70’s I took a course in The History of Religion. Being a Christian I wasn’t going to convert to another but it was sweet knowledge learning about other religions. The leftists are small minded censors of inner insecurities.
I’m amazed that they got ten votes.
Since these college students already know everything, why are their parents & the taxpayers paying the big bucks to send them to college?
A competent university administration would tell them, “You are here to learn. Sit down, listen, ask questions, think. Do not tell us how the university needs to be run, unless we ask you specific questions. The only ‘demands’ we will accede to is for your need for air to breathe.”
The bastions of groupthink and narrow mindedness.
Another school to not go to.If it werent for outrageous tuition and fed and state tax money...these schools would be gone or greatly diminished.There is some corporate welfare abuse, but this scholastic welfare abuse.
no deviation from deviant thought allowed
If the vote was THAT CLOSE, than something is turning in our direction.
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