Earlier this year, the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty senate adopted a new Framework for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence, which, according to the campus’s Board of Regents, “places the mission of diversity at the center of institutional life so that it becomes a core organizing principle.” Nothing new under the sun there.
But UW economics professor W. Lee Hansen notes something profoundly disturbing in the framework, which apparently went unnoticed by the faculty and the administration:
To achieve the plan’s vague aims, the Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee formulated five goals and thirty detailed recommendations. Unbeknownst to faculty senators, these goals and recommendations are based on the “Inclusive Excellence” framework adopted earlier by the Board of Regents. (See Agenda Item II.6 for the March 5, 2009, meeting of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.)
That framework includes eight essential “working definitions,” among them the already-discussed diversity, as well as others: “compositional diversity,” “critical mass,” “inclusion,” “equity mindedness,” “deficit-mindedness,” “representational equity,” and “excellence.”
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Happening in public schools right now. Have seen it for years.
ReplyDeleteAnd we're wondering why the graduates aren't getting good jobs....they're coming out stupid!
ReplyDeleteTHOSE are the people who will later complain that they have a degree, but can't get hired. Why?
ReplyDeleteThey can't do the work, be it engineering, computer work, or what have you.
But they will (temporarily) feel really good about themselves.
I hope they aren't involved in building any bridges in my area or any high rise apartments.
The bad thing is, they won't say they weren't hired because they're stupid. It will be because they are being "discriminated" against....
And hordes of other stupid people will agree....
"Life is hard, but it's much harder when you're stupid"....
This is what they do at UMES, that is why when a person says they got a degree from there, everyone laughs! It is not worth the paper it is printed on!
ReplyDeletehuh universities the bastions of communism.here's a clue socialism and communism dont work for freedom only total control
ReplyDeleteWe as a country have been dumbed down so the government can tell us how to live. I am in my sixties and only graduated high school. Some years ago I worked in a retail store in Salisbury. The owner hired a girl that had graduated from Salisbury University. She could not take 10% of $10.00 without a calculator. She thought I was very intelligent just because I was good at math. She graduated college and she was dumb as a box of rocks.Just saying this is our future. A very sad future.
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