Posted on 06/15/2023 4:29:39 AM PDT by karpov
Across the country, universities’ zeal for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is encroaching on the free speech and academic freedom of students and faculty. In February, the UNC Board of Governors—which oversees all 16 institutions in the UNC System—offered up a solution: a new policy prohibiting compelled speech, which the Martin Center wrote about here.
The policy is now being implemented and enforced at UNC institutions, ensuring that faculty members aren’t forced to take positions on ideological or political issues, including DEI.
Recent changes at NC State demonstrate that the policy is already working. In response to the new directive, the Faculty Senate Special Select Subcommittee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging has paused a project that appeared to promote the use of DEI statements in promotion and tenure considerations.
In an email to the Martin Center, Professor Corey Johnson, a committee co-chair, explained that the committee “was formed by NC State’s Faculty Senate in January 2023 after a year-long process of consideration, deliberation, and solicitation of faculty member volunteers who were interested and willing … to advance the institution’s priorities, specifically in relation to goal #4 of NCSU’s strategic plan.” (Goal #4 requires the university to “champion a culture of equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and well-being in all we do.”)
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Instead of requiring submission to the Nazi/commie ideology, the professor may chose to self censor and not speak a word either for or against the Satanic verses of corruption. Gee what a choice. Sarcasm
I read an interview of a woman who had lived under the Nazis and the Soviets. She preferred living under the Nazis. She said the Nazis told you the rules. As long as you obeyed the rules, they left you alone. But the Soviets wanted you to think and believe in a particular way and if they thought you weren’t doing that, they’d kill you. Sounds like the universities were Soviet. Just changing the rules won’t have any immediate affect because the people already in the University systems were selected for their adherence to “right” thinking. They’ll still keep the rules despite the laws because they “know” those are the right rules.
In organization theory once someone becomes the boss of the organization their core philosophy is enforced down the ages. If they’re thieves or lunatics, they only hire thieves and lunatics. Then when they’re gone whatever they hired for will still be running the organization. This is why we need to deep six most governmental organizations. They were corrupted a long, long time ago. That corruption is echoing down the corridors of time and power.
Progressivism rejects Christianity as outdated. It accepts Darwinism as its model.
Thus, it has no core values except to survive and grow.
It is fertile ground for corruption.
A step in the right direction.
They did not get to the root problem. It’s the people that believe that DIE is something worthy. How many have been fired? I bet none. They will just find another way to meet their agenda. UNC System also did not eliminate the curriculums that go along with DIE. All of these studies degrees have the purpose of indoctrination. They do not prepare students for anything, particularly to critically think.
A non-compelled speech policy is just a bandaid soaked in E. coli.
UNC get a lot of $$$ from the Middle East.
Not much DEI is found in the Middle East.
BTTT
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I will not forget the late top-rated UNC professor of criminal justice, Mike Adams, a convert to Chrstianity and long-time warrior against political radicalism on campus. He was persecuted by UNC for many years, fought an exhausting 7-year battle over viewpoint discrimination that went all the way to the state Supreme Court—and won—only to be persecuted again, like the Colorado cake baker. The second time he was cancelled, he killed himself. Mike, we miss you and wish you had held on.
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