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2024-04-03 -Land of the Free

Texas university clears DEI offices, fires employees in light of new state law: report

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#1 Alleged Financial Benefits of Diversity Vanish Under Scrutiny, Study Shows

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-03 04:44|| 2024-04-03 04:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Cultural graduations were another casualty of the effect of the law, prompting outrage from some students.
When the university’s Multicultural Engagement Center (MEC) was closed in compliance with the state’s law, Black Graduation, Latinx Graduation, and GraduAsian ceremonies were impacted as a result.

Dems LOVE segregation

Posted by Frank G 2024-04-03 05:55|| 2024-04-03 05:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Sanity.

Posted by Tom 2024-04-03 13:14|| 2024-04-03 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Will they now stop hounding this professor?

UT Austin Administrators Tried to Punish Professor over Anti-DEI Crusade. He’s Fighting Back.

University of Texas at Austin finance professor Richard Lowery has annoyed the university’s administration by publicly criticizing its embrace of diversity, equity, and inclusion and suggesting that administrators exploit their positions for their children’s admission.

Lowery’s crusade did not go unnoticed: Several university administrators — and the university president, Jay Hartzell — responded with a “campaign to silence” the professor, which included threatening his job, salary, professional affiliations, and research opportunities, according to a lawsuit Lowery filed against the administrators.

Lowery embraces the fact that his views are unpopular on campus. His bio on his now-private Twitter account reads: “All opinions are mine and almost certainly diametrically opposed to those of my employer.”

Lowery became unpopular on campus by criticizing the UT Austin’s sprawling DEI bureaucracy, which costs $13 million annually in salaries alone. The UT Austin “Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Strategic Plan” requires that “all members of faculty search committees must participate in diverse hiring training” and invests $3 million over four years to support “recruitment and hiring of faculty contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

The focus on DEI is exemplified by a UT Austin research program that offers a voluntary four-week study for white four- and five-year-old children and their white caregivers to learn about “anti-Black racism.” Lowery criticized the project in an op-ed for the College Fix, writing, “Imagine if such training were to be focused only on black preschool-aged children, a subset the researchers deemed deficient in patriotism.”

In response to Lowery’s public criticism of the university, Hartzell and several senior administrators pressured his supervisor at the Salem Center — a research center at the business school of UT Austin — to discipline him, according to the lawsuit. (While he likely couldn’t be fired from his tenured position as a professor, Lowery’s role at the Salem Center came with a $20,000-a-year stipend and is renewed annually.)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-03 16:35|| 2024-04-03 16:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Latinx Graduation(!) *Spit* If you can't respect their preferences for Latino/Latina then use Hispanic you blind, culturally insensitive troll.

Posted by magpie 2024-04-03 17:54|| 2024-04-03 17:54|| Front Page Top

#6 But Hispanic ignores the Brazilians, magpie, who descend from Portugal, not Spain. ;-)

Linguistically, of course, the masculine ending of Latino includes Latin females as well. Only the feminine Latina is exclusive to that s3x. But Heaven forbid the self-righteous who insist on changing the entire language to meet their particular peeves should actually learn something about the subject.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-03 21:06|| 2024-04-03 21:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Gotta love Texas!

Posted by CrazyFool in Texas 2024-04-03 21:20|| 2024-04-03 21:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Does that make the non Hispanics "Portagex?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-03 22:44|| 2024-04-03 22:44|| Front Page Top

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