Posted on 01/17/2021 5:38:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
EUGENE, Ore. - The University of Oregon says it will create an institute focusing on environmental and racial justice after receiving a grant of more than $4.5 million, the biggest humanities award in the school’s history.
The Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice will foster collaboration between the university’s College of Arts and Sciences and College of Design in conjunction with the University of Idaho and Whitman College in Washington.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation gave the university the grant.
“Oregon has a dark history of racial discrimination,” John Arroyo, professor of planning, public policy and management and director of the new institute, said in a statement. “This institute will build a bridge between statements and action toward achieving racial and climate justice on the (university) campus and across the Pacific Northwest, and offer a model for the rest of the country on addressing the most pressing issues of our time.”
Climate change has been shown to have a disproportionate impact on communities of color and people who depend on natural resources for their livelihood. Stephanie LeMenager, an English and environmental studies professor and co-organizer of the institute, said the initiative would focus on those issues.
“This institute will combine the imaginative and scholarly work of the humanities with expertise in policy, design and historic preservation to help communities around the Pacific Northwest,” LeMenager said in a statement.
The grant will also fund a post-doctoral scholarship program and environmental leadership training for students, officials said.
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Ah another degree mill for those who struggle to understand the operation of a simple wedge.
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If the University is serious about environmental justice they will turn off the electricity to all university buildings—and keep it off—forever!
About ten years ago, my college opened the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia.
Coincidentally, at the exact same time, Alumni Cyclotic and his alumni wife began instantly throwing away all college propaganda and funding requests.
Another example of a “foundation” financing the destruction of America.
If you’ve ever been to Eugene, OR you’d know why they have this crap at their state Univ. Eugene is pretty much where this Antifa excrement started back in the 90’s.
I wonder where the mellon foundation got the money? I bet they’re just the bag man.
He has the same hairline as Zuck.
The institutes of higher learning continue to morph into institutes of useless degrees
It is sad that kids are starving in this world, that sickness prematurely takes lives, and this foundation has millions of dollars to waste on goofy $hit like this. It is time to defund all colleges and universities!!!’
They’ve gotten to the point where not only they don’t hide that they’re indoctrination camps, now they proudly announce it.
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Imaginative is the key word.....it's called making it up.
Oh gee! There’s a surprise! /s (My best Cousin Vinnie voice)
If China will be doing all of the manufacturing and India all service industries, the US needs to create work for its useful idiots through more government “jobs” (i.e. socialism).
These grads will be prepared for jobs in the Ministry of Propaganda
College is where rich parents send their liberal kids to get them out of the basement.
An academy for political officers
I thought the actual name was Ministry of Truth.
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