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This.Eliminateallmost minority students (because you always need a Tim Scott to launder your true drivers)? Shut down the Sonja Haynes Center for Black Culture and History? Put the Silent Sam statue up again?
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This.Eliminateallmost minority students (because you always need a Tim Scott to launder your true drivers)? Shut down the Sonja Haynes Center for Black Culture and History? Put the Silent Sam statue up again?
Disturbing. The argument seems to boil down to it is not censorship if the topic is about race, gender, ethnicity, sexual preference or gender identity Because we are just protecting people from hearing something upsetting (?)‘A Banner Year for Censorship’: More States Are Restricting Classroom Discussions on Race and Gender
By Katherine Mangan June 20, 2025
"Teaching social work in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Cassandra E. Simon often assigns readings that describe how the families her students might one day serve have been impacted by more than a century of housing, employment, and education discrimination. The associate professor has encouraged her students to engage in spirited discussions about race, even assigning a project in which they advocate for or against a social-justice issue.
Doing any of those things today, she argues in a federal lawsuit, could get her fired from the state flagship, where she’s taught for 25 years. Last year, the state’s Republican governor, Kay Ivey, signed into law a sweeping bill that restricts what professors can teach about race. If any of their lessons veer into what conservative politicians have deemed “divisive concepts,” faculty members risk being reported, investigated, and potentially fired.
That kind of incursion into the curriculum is growing and prompting a flurry of First Amendment challenges from Simon and other plaintiffs. It’s a line state lawmakers did not cross early on in their push to dismantle DEI efforts, even as universities shuttered offices, laid off employees, canceled scholarships, and called off diversity training. But over the past two years, more than a dozen laws have been enacted that either limit which classes can be taught or imposed restrictions on what professors can say in the classroom, according to a Chronicle analysis of state legislation and a compilation of what PEN America calls “educational gag orders.”
This year especially “has been a banner year for censorship at a state level across the country,” said Amy B. Reid, senior manager at PEN America’s Freedom to Learn program. “The point of a lot of these restrictions is to put people on guard, worried that anything or everything could be prohibited so you really have to watch what you say.”
Some of the chief architects of the DEI-dismantling playbook have insisted that they’re not trying to silence anyone. In a January 26 letter to the editor in The Wall Street Journal by Ilya Shapiro and Jesse Arm of the Manhattan Institute, the institute declared that “Conservatives Have No Interest In Censorship.”
“By ending practices such as identity-based discrimination and compulsory, politically coercive diversity statements,” these laws “protect the rights of professors and students to engage freely on all topics, including race,” they wrote."
Anyone wants to read the rest of this firewalled article let me know and i'll post more.
I think the underlying operative question is “does this problem require the assumption of responsibility by the white people in power?” If yes, bury it, hell, make it illegal.Disturbing. The argument seems to boil down to it is not censorship if the topic is about race, gender, ethnicity, sexual preference or gender identity Because we are just protecting people from hearing something upsetting (?)
This could be trouble — not that accrediting organizations as they currently exist aren’t a huge pain in the ass anyway.
This could be trouble — not that accrediting organizations as they currently exist aren’t a huge pain in the ass anyway.
And he caved. That’s some weak shit.So now, the Trump administration is just going to pressure universities to remove their presidents. This is happening at the University of Virginia.
Scary times.
That conservative states would help to form a new college accreditation body that would give them leverage over universities and/or allow them to opt out of the current accreditation bodies was utterly predictable.
That North Carolina is a participant in the process saddens me greatly.
He didn't cave. The new incoming Board of Visitors, comprised of Glenn Youngkin appointees, which begins on July 1 next week, had the numbers to fire him. They would not have the numbers to do so on June 30.And he caved. That’s some weak shit.
Thank god Youngkin will be out of office by January and hopefully a Democrat - Spanberger - will take his place.He didn't cave. The new incoming Board of Visitors, comprised of Glenn Youngkin appointees, which begins on July 1 next week, had the numbers to fire him. They would not have the numbers to do so on June 30.
I think he should have made them fire him. It’s the principled position and may be better for the University re: the DoJ investigation.He didn't cave. The new incoming Board of Visitors, comprised of Glenn Youngkin appointees, which begins on July 1 next week, had the numbers to fire him. They would not have the numbers to do so on June 30.
Agreed. I am hopeful and confident that the next Democratic gubernatorial administration in Virginia will remove the political hacks from the BOV that made this ouster possible.Thank god Youngkin will be out of office by January and hopefully a Democrat - Spanberger - will take his place.
Yeah, I hear ya. I honestly don't know what to think, and go back and forth on whether or not he should have made them fire him. On one hand, I believe in taking a principled stand. On the other hand, if the firing was going to be inevitable in a matter of days anyway, perhaps the resignation allows the political hacks on the BOV and the Youngkin administration to feel that they've got their pound of flesh and to not pursue further punitive action toward the University as it pertains to withholding of federal funding. Personally, I'd be very skeptical that this makes the Trump DOJ do anything but come back for more, but we shall see.I think he should have made them fire him. It’s the principled position and may be better for the University re: the DoJ investigation.
SACS has always tried to protect academic freedom and faculty being in control of the curriculum. I doubt either of those things will be priorities for this new accreditation body.That conservative states would help to form a new college accreditation body that would give them leverage over universities and/or allow them to opt out of the current accreditation bodies was utterly predictable.
That North Carolina is a participant in the process saddens me greatly.
ThisSACS has always tried to protect academic freedom and faculty being in control of the curriculum. I doubt either of those things will be priorities for this new accreditation body.
South Carolina would still be first in leading us into the abyss; 21st century North Carolina would be just a half-stride behind.It’s a bad look - NC was the last to secede - reckon we’d be earlier now-a-days?