Posted on 02/24/2023 6:07:28 AM PST by karpov
Universities adopt Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) plans with a host of promises. Advocates pledge, for instance, that, through reforms, the university will come to approximate the racial composition of the local community or state. Yet “equity” has proven to be an elusive goal, selectively pursued. It is sought only when it advantages supposedly underrepresented minorities. There are no “Men in Elementary Education” programs and few dedicated to “Men in Nursing.” The inconsistency between the stated goals of equity and its implementation reveals that equity is about disrupting and dismantling more than achieving any kind of parity.
If equity is a wolf in wolf’s clothing, “inclusion” comes as a sheep. The official promise of inclusion (or “belonging,” as it is sometimes styled) is the unobjectionable goal of making all students and staff feel welcome on campus. A good campus climate cultivates a learning environment that, in the words of Texas A&M’s 2010 Report on Diversity, “fully recognizes, values, and integrates diversity in the pursuit of academic excellence.” A goal so vapid must mask deeper, more controversial goals.
Few universities illustrate this truth better than Texas A&M (TAMU), as I show in a recent report. TAMU has sought to build a DEI university since the late 1990s, when former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was its president. Efforts accelerated with TAMU’s 2010 Report on Diversity, which announced a two-pronged revolution in equity and inclusive climate. Important incentives were put in place for university units and colleges that adopted aggressive equity measures and efforts to measure and improve the campus climate. Since then, TAMU units have conducted audits to measure whether the student body or the faculty mirror the population of Texas (equity) and whether people feel they belong on campus (climate).
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If I were a high school student today, I would seriously consider studying abroad.
Even if they're somehow proud of their 2-9 record against Bama over the past 11 years. LOL
Obama was the first politician in office to try to put DEI into legal practice.
His use of the Marxist idea referred to “disparate impact” (measuring outcomes as ‘evidence’ of discrimination). Disparate impact and diversity-equity-inclusion are both the same Leftist idea sold in different clothing.
<< The committee paid no attention to the fact that black attitudes had deteriorated significantly (from 82 percent in 2015 to 55 percent in 2020) since the intensification of the DEI regime >>
Imagine that. A program that advances racial resentment against whitey somehow increased …racial resentment against whitey.
Gates destroyed everything he touched including Texas A&M.
I agree, A&M has access to some of the best football players in the country and an unholy amount of funds from state and alumni and cannot produce a great football program, good, maybe, great, not in a long time.
They want to change the world using diversity? As a Texas tax payer just give us good graduates and some military leaders.
Being a Longhorn, I will refrain from saying too many good things about the Aggies. But I will say this: It takes a LOT of doing to kill their pride in being an Aggie.
I’m from Texas, but I have lived in four other states. Nowhere else have I observed race relations to be any better. Where I lived in Texas, races ‘got along’ well and it was never a big thing. Most other places I’ve lived, like Georgia, the lines of division were FAR sharper.
I also hate to say it, but... the DEI forces in Austin, from what I hear, are even more entrenched. If they can infect A&M, they can screw up anyone.
Have a family member worked for the Great State of Texas, from west Texas he is a great guy. For his last couple of years of work he was sent to Austin to help with budgets and do research in his field for the Texas Congress. Not 6 months after arriving in Austin his views not only changed but became entrenched.
Which one will you study?
OK, you can't make jokes like that anymore, even at TAMU. However, which overseas university do you think would be more likely to provide a classical university education than any of the woke Univs stateside? I think one would be better off at Hillsdale or Grove City than Oxford or the Sorbonnes or Todai if looking for conservative teaching.
“Disparate impact” came in the late 1970s...from EEO beatch whose name I forget. (Eleanor Norton?) Hated it then...in fact, did my best to ignore and not learn it...I was in HR. My eyes would glaze over when it was mentioned. But yes, the O has, like Dems, used it to bludgeon Americans.
“Disparate impact” came in the late 1970s...from E......”
Obama tried to use it/enforce it with the DOJ in some housing and other disrcimination suits; the courts rejected it.
The article makes a good point that diversity only seems to be important when it increases liberal percentages.
I have never once heard a liberal fretting about there being to few conservatives in the media or holywood, or Christians in academia!
When does the article finally get to the part about alienating studends?
Always telling to me that we Horns and the Aggies pick at each other, but when the bonfire tragedy happened, the first people on scene from another school and offering support were the student leaders from UT. Likewise, my experience is that Aggies and Horns in the military away from Texas support and brag on each other.
Colone, USAF JAGCR (Ret)
Looking ahead to the NBA’s “more white men” so the NBA can look more like America.
Also, I believe the NFL has already begun theirs...what(?), no?
“Universities adopt Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) plans ...”
That’s as far as I read.
To speak back to them, always put it as Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE).
Because the acronym is DIE that way. DIE expresses the real agenda behind all this. They want you, your culture, your history and all to die.
It’s that basic.
You will experience them often correcting you that it’s supposed to be DEI. If you experience such correction, that validates the point above even more.
‘There are no “Men in Elementary Education” programs and few dedicated to “Men in Nursing.”
well, to be honest, who the hell wants a male nurse anyway...?
‘OK, you can’t make jokes like that anymore, even at TAMU.’
Groucho Marx would starve today...
We're cut from the same cloth, born of the same blood. We can pick on each other at will. But, down deep... we're all family.
I visited Aggie friends to attend two bonfires during my time at UT. Both were a LOT of fun. It was actually more fun the year that Aggies somehow won. ;-) That collapse was just an awful thing. It was definitely a time for being supportive.
I keep wondering whether the diversity program at A&M resulted in various colors of sheep? Or, whether it meant bringing in other animals?
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