Posted on 03/24/2016 4:36:31 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The school took action this week on two diversity demands, hiring a chief diversity officer and requiring students to complete diversity-themed courses.
Still reeling from last year’s student protests, the University of Missouri took action this week on two more diversity demands, hiring a chief diversity officer and requiring students to complete diversity-themed courses.
The College of Arts and Science at Mizzou announced Wednesday that undergraduates will now have to complete three credit-hours of “diversity intensive” (DI) courses in order to graduate, saying the courses will focus on “understanding differing social groups” and “will explore at least one form of social inequality, broadly defined.”
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The College accounts for more than half of all Mizzou students, with more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled.
Similar curricular changes had been periodically debated since a 1990 rally at which students demanded mandatory “multicultural” classes, but the idea was repeatedly tabled until this week, when it was approved with 75 percent of a faculty vote.
Although the College is careful to note that the new requirements were not devised in response to the 2015 campus unrest, the press release strongly suggests that the protests were a major factor in their approval, observing that “the events of the fall of 2015 forcefully demonstrated that the concerns students first raised in 1990 have not disappeared.”
“It is important to note that this is not something that we whipped up in response to the events of last fall or the student protests,” said Elisa Glick, chair of the A&S Diversity Committee and an associate professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies.
Glick also boasted that students will not be forced to take any additional classes, and that they will be able to choose from a variety of diversity-themed course offerings in any field of study. Students may take the courses at any point, but are encouraged to fulfill the condition in their first three semesters.
The revised A&S curriculum is not the only form of mandatory diversity training at Mizzou, however. Starting this semester, all incoming students must participate in a “Diversity@Mizzou” workshop intended to help them understand and appreciate cultural and racial diversity.
At the inaugural training session in January, for example, students were treated to several examples of cultural appropriation, such as dressing up as a geisha or taco for Halloween, and were also told that the pursuit of inclusivity should take precedence over freedom of speech.
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The various diversity initiatives being pursued at Mizzou will be overseen by Kevin McDonald, who was appointed Wednesday to serve as the university’s first Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer. McDonald, who previously served in a similar role at the Rochester Institution of Technology, will receive a starting salary of $235,000 to fill the position created in response to the demands of student protesters.
When Mizzou goes down the tubes, it’ll be the fault of the whites who rejected the school’s mandatory diversity program.
Diversity training? In 1944 a million young men, stormed beaches to relieve Europe of the scourge of Nazism and Japanese Imperialism. Today they can’t even find a room in which to pee without a special comfort squad to protect them. Thank you NEA! Thank you DOE. God save the Republic.
They haven’t lost enough money, apparently.
When you’re stupid, just add more.
I'd like to shut the university down for a few years and let the libs find work elsewhere.
This would save the taxpayers of Missouri a few million dollars while we look for a better solution.
What would it hurt?
Another reason not to go to Mizzou.
There are already liberals coming close.
Prof: I Chose Not To Have Children, Because They’d Be White
Maybe the University of Missouri will do the marketplace a favor.
DIE!
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So what is the current cost per credit hour?
What she seems to be saying here is that she only dates white people. That is so racist. Sar.
Odds are, even if she could find a date, she’s in danger of becoming pregnant.
Why does anyone spend money to go to these phony universities?
diversity used to mean one learned off other peoples views and thought, but for liberals it sure does not as they are the most intolerant people I have ever met or seen.
Just when we thought “safe zones” for the snowflakes had done the trick. The commie libs running that two-bit joint just can’t be satisfied.
The whole thing was caused by socialist perferssers in the social science and journalism departments, but the engineering department is the one that gets to take the financial hit.
They never learn.
Already started: Mizzou Protests Lead to Plunge In Freshmen, Massive Budget Deficits
My daughter once participated in a college protest. The administration cut "reading day" before finals. Students occupied the admin building, broke out their books and studied quietly for 8 hours. Professors showed up to answer whatever questions the students had. The next semester reading day was back on the academic calendar.
That's a protest I can support.
The interesting thing is that some black racists have said kill the white guys but leave the women for breeding, since they can make brown babies.
This woman isn’t even leaving that option on the table.
So Whites can show that they care by leaving.
Oh of course it will. No doubt about it.
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