Posted on 01/17/2022 5:43:21 AM PST by karpov
It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has financially impacted the education system for almost two years. The North Carolina community college system (NCCCS), which had an enrollment drop of 11 percent in 2020, is no exception. With a reduction in enrollment comes a reduction in funding, putting a strain on the 58 community colleges in the state.
In March 2021, EdNC reported, “The community college system is [ ] asking for $61 million in non-recurring funds to stabilize their budgets after the steep enrollment declines this year and funding for community college faculty and staff pay raises.”
With such obvious financial stress, one would think the community college system is taking steps to better manage its resources and hopefully reduce its financial burdens. However, with the establishment of the System Advisory Council Initiative on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the system has unfortunately decided to spend its resources on a frivolous, if not insidious, ideological initiative.
The DEI advisory council initiative was enacted in the summer of 2020 with the goal of conducting a deep dive into institutional code and policy to unearth any “inequities” that appear to be limiting opportunities for students, faculty, and staff, and offering recommendations for improvement. Then-NCCCS President Peter Hans called upon Wayne Community College President Thomas A. Walker, Jr, and Southwestern Community College President Don Tomas to be leaders of the task force, with several other community college presidents as members.
Thomas Stith III, the current and 10th president of the NCCCS stated that, “The North Carolina Community College System will become a national model for diversity and inclusion.” In an interview with the Martin Center in March, Stith stated that he hoped the system would “lead and set the standard, not only within the state but nationally, for diversity and inclusion.”
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DEI is code for anti-white discrimination.
It should be Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.
Conservatives should always put the order:
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity,
so that it can be abbreviated:
DIE
Paid for not working and now want raises? Fire them all.
The lesson these fools continue to ignore is “Go woke, go broke!”
The exceptions being - if you're politically conservative or a Christian.
It’s more code for hire and promote the incompetents who cannot otherwise get a job. Plenty of whites are getting high paying government positions with a lot of authority provided they push this stuff.
"Hey,Richie" we'd say..."come on down and play some football"."No",he'd say..."my Mom wants me to read".
Now,55 years later,I live in a nice,comfortable,place in a nice town.I drive a nice car and have a good life...a very good life in fact. He,OTOH,is a physician at a world famous hospital,lives in a huge house in an exclusive neighborhood and has an absolutely gorgeous wife.
Why can't I have what he has? Perhaps it's due to him being genetically superior and/or the fact that he worked harder (a lot harder?) than I have.
Equal opportunity? You betcha! "Equity"? BULLBLEEP!
Which of course EXCLUDES Christians, conservatives, libertarians, capitalists, etc. It’s code for fascism.
“...after the steep enrollment declines this year and funding for community college faculty and staff pay raises...”
Did you catch that. They have enrollment declines but still want massive pay raises.
Eventually when NO ONE is attending these junior colleges then the staff will want millions in wages to sit and do nothing because we know they sure as hell aren’t teaching anything worthy.
The colleges have fewer students and thus need more money to not teach them.
Got it.
It is certainly that, but also a sales pitch to the remaining demographics that might see the schools as worth the time and money.
I was teaching at a local community college a few years ago and the new administration made a comment that the biggest problem for the college was high enrollment and they actually took steps to discourage enrollment.
Apparently, the money needed to accommodate all of those pesky students was cutting into the money they needed to hire more administrators.
The administration seems to think that the purpose of the college is to provide a platform for hiring friends to unnecessary administrative jobs.
Diversity and inclusion oppose each other. Like mixing oil and water.
Name one big business or sports franchise that adopted woke and went broke.
Lead and set the standard, not only within the state but nationally.
Page one in Karl Marx hand book
One MG asked, our organization is made up of retired gardeners, now the professors at the college want us to teach for them?
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