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
I totally agree. SOMEBODY has to put a stop to this anarchy!!
If this was a conservative administration with conservative students demanding the resignation due to religious beliefs, you can be sure Debbie Wasserman Schultz would be calling this a Republican ideological failure.
We need to do the same thing.
It’s awesome until it dawns on you that only Blacks can fill those positions and soon 90% of our campuses will not only be Leftist assholes, but will also be Black revisionist control freaks implementing the radical Black agenda.
In other words no difference.
“being unsupportive towards students of marginalized identities”
WTF are ‘students of marginalized identities??????!”
SH*T!
what insane destruction is being wreaked on this wonderful country ?
Sounds good...
Probably so...
Well..., I’ve found in life that things can generally get a lot worse, even when you think you’ve already arrived at rock bottom.
If you like the job Black Democrats have done running city governments in this country, you are going to like what our colleges will look like very shortly.
Give your children the cash you would waste on a college miseducation so they can learn a skill that will lead to a job. If you brought them up right, they will thank you for it.
ps: any student who is attending Claremont (very very expensive!) is either super rich (one percenter) or else is on scholarship (getting a free or partially free ride)
the rich should not be complaining about BS issues like having “marginalized identities” -— and if they do feel bad about themselves, they should take it up with their dam*ed parents, not innnocent people away at college
the poor who are getting free rides should shut up and get back to their studies... that’s what they are being paid to do... and they are super fortunate (and certainly not “marginalized”) to be admitted to a rich elite college like Claremont (one class only..not even including books: $8,133 -— a year’s regular studies on campus the college uses a $66,000 published figure for average cost)
Bwa hahahahah. This is gonna be fun. These loonies might actually do what conservatives should have done 20 years ago: shut down the university system.
That may be sage advice.
Heshes.
SINGING “Another Lib Bites the Dust”.
Love “Queen”!
Watched a few minutes of the video of their grievance meeting. They want a “resource center” for students of marginalized identity. They want more people of color as faculty members and the administration. Heard terms such as “critical race theory” and “social justice” that must be included in the curriculum.
And periodic “sensitivity training” for all students and faculty.
Only watched a few minutes of an almost one hour meeting.
This whole thing is ridiculous but if it uproots current standards in colleges, it might be worth it.
Tuition is way too high and unsupportable for most people. College loans have proved to be disastrous for most as the degree didn’t provide the financial benefits to pay the loan back.
A college degree is mostly worth getting an interview. It’s the lazy human resource way of weeding out complete dummies.
Too many overpaid professors who teach political philosophies instead of subject. Too many tenured professors, period. Too many lazy professors, usually tenured, who teach two classes a week.
Colleges need to go back to square one... teach real subjects; stop giving preferred admittance to anyone because of anything.
Reward real scholarship. Just a partial list.
Guess what skin shade the replacement will be.
“They won’t be happy until every university’s president is black, no white profs, free tuition, abundant safe rooms filled with crayons and stuffed animals and no watermelon at the fresh bar.”
Leftists eating their own. Kinda funny when you think about it. Instead of 98% leftist white administrators we get 98% black leftist administrators.
The colleges today are mostly useless with entire departments handing out fake degrees. Now it is confirmed. By the way a college president’s main function is fund raising. In other words if it hasn’t hit rock bottom now it will.
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