Posted on 03/25/2022 8:00:46 AM PDT by karpov
On February 25, Wyoming’s state senate passed a budget amendment to end funding for the University of Wyoming’s Gender and Women’s Studies program. State senator Cheri Steinmetz (R-Lingle) was concerned that the program promoted “service and activism.” “We’re training activists” with state money, Sen. Steinmetz argued, adding that she lost sleep after studying the array of queer, feminist, and social justice theories emphasized in the program.
Steinmetz’s amendment specifically bars any “general funds, federal funds or other funds under its [the University of Wyoming’s] control” for the purpose of “gender studies courses, academic programs, co-curricular programs and extracurricular programs.”
The bill has, apparently, since been killed in a Wyoming House committee.
Yet the amendment still sparked a much-needed debate about the role of the legislature in higher education reform.
Some hold that every legislative look under the hood at the universities is a violation of academic freedom and the constitutional protection of free speech. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), among many others, claimed that Steinmetz’s amendment amounts to a “curricular ban,” which, according to the Supreme Court is unconstitutional in higher education. “By not funding and thereby shutting down” courses and activities related to gender studies, FIRE argued in a press release, “the amendment functions as a curricular ban on that topic and would limit academic discussion of gender in any class.” Similarly, the Chronicle of Higher Education thinks it “dangerous ground” to target such programs for defunding.
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The state legislatures need to close the state universities.
The rot is too deep—it cannot be fixed with “reform”.
Why the h*ll was this program ever started? In Wyoming?!!!
These days the words “gender” and “chopping block” bring up some ugly images.
They also need to get rid of Queer Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Race Studies - along with any associated faculty and any students actually majoring in such things.
The stories are jaw-dropping, infuriating, and plentiful, things unheard of just a few years ago.
<><>St. Paul, Minn offers LGBTQ-affirming curricula for students as young as 3 years old.
<><>11-year-old coached by Coeur d’Alene, ID, school into a sex change w/out notifying parents.
<><> Cali Teachers Assoc 2021 conference advising teachers on
<><>best ways to subvert parents, conservatives, principals on gen/identity and sexual orientation.
<><>Speakers went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity,
<><> hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs,
<><> actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents.
All “studies” courses and degrees are useless crap that don’t contribute anything to our society or country except division, hostility and, ultimately, our downfall. There’s a reason the USA fell from first place in math and sciences to 39th place and “studies” are a big part of the problem.
All part of the 5th column commie plan.
The bill has, apparently, since been killed in a Wyoming House committee.
Yet the amendment still sparked a much-needed debate about the role of the legislature in higher education reform.
That said, we need to be that small match too. Start a few fires.
Here’s all you need to know kids. A man has a weenie and a woman has a wu wu. Class dismissed.
It only took them 20 years but finally they get it.
Probably because they can't get past the course "Sex 101- What is a woman?".
It is way past time things like this stopped being funded. Universities staffed with clueless morons teaching people to be clueless morons is a negative return on investment.
Some hold that every legislative look under the hood at the universities is a violation of academic freedom and the constitutional protection of free speech.
He who pays the piper calls the tune. Suck it up.
“The state legislatures need to close the state universities.”
I think private enterprises can do the trick: Simply do not hire ‘woke’ kids and the under-educated.
The state universities have tons of “dead weight” administrators and bureaucrats undermining true education.
They are a drain of taxpayers dollars and need to be closed.
“Why the h*ll was this program ever started? In Wyoming?!!!”
Because us normals were (and remain) asleep while the “activists” AKA, social termites, eat away at the foundations of society.
I’ve come to the conclusion that activists, aka, community agitators, are the ones that control our lives. Losing an election for them is just a bump on the road - they have myriads of other ways to get what they want.
Bingo. There's no one more lazy and out-of-touch than most conservatives.
Well, they could put the money into the Biology Studies programs.
bump
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