Posted on 11/12/2015 1:30:58 PM PST by abb
At 12:02 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, Mary Spellman resigned as Dean of Students following calls for her resignation after students of color articulated concerns about the Dean of Students office being unsupportive towards students of marginalized identities, and two students yesterday began hunger strikes calling for her resignation. Additional coverage coming later — find Spellman’s email to the CMC community below.
Dear CMC Community:
Since 2010 I have been privileged to serve as Dean of Students at Claremont McKenna College. Today I am submitting my letter of resignation, effective immediately. I do so with sadness beyond words, because these nearly six years have been the most rewarding and fulfilling of my life, but also with the conviction that it is the right thing to do for the school and the students I care about so deeply.
I have been grateful for the support of the Administration and the heartening encouragement I have received from so many of my students, former students and colleagues. Among the calls, texts and emails I have received is a student who wrote:
“You’ve inspired me in my time at CMC. Please stay strong and realize students like me need you to stay here…I will always be honored to consider you a mentor, a role model, and above all, friend.â€
And a faculty member who wrote:
“I also recognize how much you have worked to make our community more inclusive… I know I join many fellow faculty members and students in expressing my full support and confidence in you as Dean of Students here at CMC.â€
To all who have been so supportive, please know how sorry I am if my decision disappoints you. I believe it is the best way to gain closure of a controversy that has divided the student body and disrupted the mission of this fine institution. Most important, I hope this will help enable a truly thoughtful, civil and productive discussion about the very real issues of diversity and inclusion facing Claremont McKenna, higher education and other institutions across our society.
Sincerely,
Mary
Wow - who do I support in this fight.
Racists who call me a cracker and a teabagger simply because I disagree or the racists who call me a cracker and a teabagger simply because I disagree?
I agree.
Kiss of death for a lib to be labeled a racist, so they bail out at the first whiff of being labeled as one. They then slink off to another college and regroup.
The only group being marginalized is the majority.
Hillsdale.
>>> ..... unsupportive towards students of marginalized identities
What the HECK !!! Now it is not ‘just about’ race anymore.
Marginalized, my foot. Imaginalized, more like.....
Bolsheviks versus the Mensheviks ala Lenin and Stalin
I’m not sure which is worse, inmates running the asylum, or students running the university.
This elitist leftist gobbledegook reads as if it was written by a graduate mass communications major to avoid actually saying what he/she/it meant.
"sudents of color" = blacks
"articulated" = claimed or said
"unsupportive" = wouldn't give in to their whining
"students of marginalized identities" = confused idiots who don't know if they are boys or girls or gnomes.
I'm going to guess either "undocumented"(illegal) aliens, or the trannies.
It would be so wonderful if this just destroyed colleges as we know them.
They no longer actually teach skills and knowledge necessary for life. They are merely leftist reprogramming centers.
There's a difference?
I really don’t GAS because it’s the left eating the left but what these klowns should do to shake it up would be for Claremont to hire the guy from Mizzoo and Spellman to go to work at Mizzzoo, etc.
I’m pretty sure we could find it in DSM-5.
The pendulum swings both ways— lets oust every leftist school Administrator by calling them ‘racists’ -— ahh delicious irony.
At some point, whites will refuse to attend those colleges and universities.
At some point us taxpayers need to shut off the money.
Sigh........if only
It’s the beginnings of College Baltimore......the good will leave and the self governance will reveal its incompetence and racism. Sorry it’s happening but will be fun to watch as donations dry up and stadiums and admissions take major hits
Good post but I mistakenly posted my reply....meant for another but you said a mouthful.....;)
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