In my experience with a DEI based student council the positions were picked by high
level admin then groomed. Replacement when needed was then picked by the students. To note these positions on this particular student council were also paid positions funded by the student fees paid to the school. The same school did exactly what you said and rebranded it’s still all there hiding in plain sight under new acronyms.
I am surprised that Idaho was not among those states that you listed.
To add to your local history: the reason Pocatello had the largest African American community for so long was that it was a company town of the Union Pacific RR. Part of the deal it had with the all black Coleman Porters was a pension plus land on which to build a house. The RR had land in Pocatello and Idaho did not have the same restrictive racially discriminatory laws that other states had so many of the Union Pacific Porters received plots of land in what is now the Bonneville area of town. The first in state chapter of the NAACP was founded here in Pocatello by a Mr. Monroe.
Martin, I wonder if you could explain the mechanics of how this can happen. I mean, who is authorized to hire people like this. It seems to me that either an already woke faculty has the power or the head of the university makes the choice. Maybe it’s another mechanism, so please enlighten us.
It's changed since I retired, but these were generally administrative hires in my time, with limited. hand-picked faculty input. The tail wagged the dog.
And as I have opted elsewhere these policies seem to be enacted without any sort of collegial discussion based on rational debate. As members of another group have said with regr to their own policy dynamics “When the leaders have decided then the thinking has been done.”
Cluelessness about the community they are trying to impose their values on is exactly how I have always felt ever since DEI started worming its way into our community college system here in the PNW. You have a school based in the middle of a county in which the military plays an outsized role for many generations, on the West Coast, where the population is full of interracial marriages from all over the world and second and third generations all intermarrying, and the DEI enthusiasts want to tell us that we have been doing it wrong in our personal, school, and work relationships all this time.
It was early 2010's when all the office people of our branch campus had to go to a training, and I attended a staff-faculty meeting shortly after where the (none of them white) office people gave the director some very negative feedback on how wrong it was that the training session had made their older white female coworker feel so bad she was crying, and she the nicest most sensitive person in the world. Unfortunately, all the director did was say he would make a note about it, but no leadership did anything effective to stop it and of course it has just metastasized from there.
In my experience with a DEI based student council the positions were picked by high
level admin then groomed. Replacement when needed was then picked by the students. To note these positions on this particular student council were also paid positions funded by the student fees paid to the school. The same school did exactly what you said and rebranded it’s still all there hiding in plain sight under new acronyms.
I am surprised that Idaho was not among those states that you listed.
To add to your local history: the reason Pocatello had the largest African American community for so long was that it was a company town of the Union Pacific RR. Part of the deal it had with the all black Coleman Porters was a pension plus land on which to build a house. The RR had land in Pocatello and Idaho did not have the same restrictive racially discriminatory laws that other states had so many of the Union Pacific Porters received plots of land in what is now the Bonneville area of town. The first in state chapter of the NAACP was founded here in Pocatello by a Mr. Monroe.
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Martin, I wonder if you could explain the mechanics of how this can happen. I mean, who is authorized to hire people like this. It seems to me that either an already woke faculty has the power or the head of the university makes the choice. Maybe it’s another mechanism, so please enlighten us.
It's changed since I retired, but these were generally administrative hires in my time, with limited. hand-picked faculty input. The tail wagged the dog.
And as I have opted elsewhere these policies seem to be enacted without any sort of collegial discussion based on rational debate. As members of another group have said with regr to their own policy dynamics “When the leaders have decided then the thinking has been done.”
Cluelessness about the community they are trying to impose their values on is exactly how I have always felt ever since DEI started worming its way into our community college system here in the PNW. You have a school based in the middle of a county in which the military plays an outsized role for many generations, on the West Coast, where the population is full of interracial marriages from all over the world and second and third generations all intermarrying, and the DEI enthusiasts want to tell us that we have been doing it wrong in our personal, school, and work relationships all this time.
It was early 2010's when all the office people of our branch campus had to go to a training, and I attended a staff-faculty meeting shortly after where the (none of them white) office people gave the director some very negative feedback on how wrong it was that the training session had made their older white female coworker feel so bad she was crying, and she the nicest most sensitive person in the world. Unfortunately, all the director did was say he would make a note about it, but no leadership did anything effective to stop it and of course it has just metastasized from there.