Posted on 06/04/2015 1:47:50 PM PDT by markomalley
Jabar Shumate did not wait until his official start date to begin his duties as OU’s newest administrator.
While he had previously been working off the clock, Shumate officially began Monday as the OU Vice President for University Community. He said his preparation has paid off.
“For the past month, I’ve been just visiting and connecting with various groups and individuals on campus,” Shumate said. “But it actually feels good to have [an office] of my own.”
Shumate and others have laid out a blueprint for mandatory diversity training, which was called for with the rise of black student alliance Unheard and after the Sigma Alpha Epsilon scandal. He said all incoming freshmen will be required to take five hours of the training and will filter the students out with Camp Crimson, gateway classes or a different, stand-alone class.
“We really want students from the start at OU to understand that diversity and inclusivity is at the core of who we are as Sooners,” Shumate said.
Freshmen that do not go to Camp Crimson and receive the training there will receive it if they take a gateway course, according to Shumate. If they do not take a gateway course, certain courses that are approved by a committee will be able to infuse the diversity curriculum into the course’s curriculum. If a student does not participate in any of those, they must take a stand-alone diversity training, Shumate said.
“By the end of your freshman year,” Shumate said, “you will have to have had this five hours of diversity and inclusivity experience within one of those options.”
On Monday, his official starting date, Shumate said he participated in meetings with other vice presidents of OU, including Catherine Bishop, vice president of public affairs, and Tripp Hall, vice president for development. Shumate also visited with OU President David Boren in the afternoon, he said. Boren said in a statement how much he has enjoyed working with Shumate.
“Jabar and I have developed a very close working relationship,” Boren said. “Even though he [did] not officially start until June 1st, we have already developed the practice of talking several times each week. His performance has been outstanding. His insights have been extremely helpful and I believe that he will be a very positive force for more inclusiveness in the OU family."
Shumate has chosen D'Andre Fisher as an assistant to help in his duties as a new administrator. Shumate said Fisher has been helpful because of the contacts he has across the university.
“He’s been very helpful in helping me connect with ongoing programs and students,” Shumate said. “He’s gotten me up to speed on activities like Camp Crimson and has even partaken in helping me develop the mandatory diversity training.”
Shumate said the future of campus looks bright and that there is much more work to be done.
“Students have been a major part of why I’m here today, and they are really leading the way in what we’re going to do in terms of diversity and inclusivity on this campus,” Shumate said. “So I’m really excited.”
Gee, when I was back in College, one of the mandatory courses was Military Science. How times have changed. This BS has got to stop. The only reason they have diversity training is most of the clowns admitted to college today could not have made it out of high school acedemically 50 years ago.
I endured numerous mandatory diversity training sessions. They were nauseating. But the company was dead serious about indoctrinating us and if we failed to indoctrinate successfully, we could be punished or dismissed. I was informed by a wonderful boss that I was on a secret watch list and I needed to tow the line. Indeed, I was once tried and convicted in secret for “the appearance” of sexual harassment. (Not of actual harassment, but the definition was if an uninvolved third party thought it was harassment, then, by definition it was. I got the company lawyer involved and it all went away with minimal after effects.)
Hmm, anything in that diversity training about black OU football players who commit crimes and don’t get kicked out of OU?
Didn’t think so.
The entering college students at OU are well-educated and accomplished in various ways. Yet, one is never too smart to be condescended to, I guess. The students will get a 5 hour kindergarten class in playing nice on the playground, whether they like it or not, and whether they’ve heard it a million times before or not.
“By the end of your freshman year,” Shumate said, “you will have to have had this five hours of diversity and inclusivity experience within one of those options.”
By the end of your freshman year you will broken and compliant. A bug FU to my Alma Mater. I wouldn’t take the class and thus get expelled.
Depravity and Perversion 101
The re-education camps are here. :)
And students get to pay for their own liberal indoctrination!
Do you think enough whites will ever get up off their knees and tell these AH’s to GF themselves?
“The principal value is learning exactly who to avoid like the plague.”
After my secret trial where witnesses I never saw said I said or did things, I never again had an unguarded conversation or mingled with people I did not already know well. I pointed out to the plant manager that there was a long and storied past to the trial in absentia with no defense allowed. It was called The Inquisition.
Incidentally, I asked if the “Ethics officer” had goals and objectives. Turns out he did. He was supposed to turn in, try and convict two individuals before the year’s end. I asked the plant manager who he planned on losing, pointing out that eventually there would be nobody left but him, HR and the “Ethics officer.”
I was fortunate. My company started mandatory “diversity” training about 6 months before I retired in 1999. Large company, many separate classes. I told my sympathetic boss that I was retiring soon and I’m not going to the asinine class. He covered for me until I retired.
No one has been able to logically explain to me exactly why diversity is a good, desirable thing, to be pursued in earnest.
I’ve asked many people, many times.
Silly and won’t achieve purpose.....like all orientations?
An excellent description—more here:
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/american-zampolit
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