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May 21, 2007
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The touted goal of academic diversity is to provide diversity in viewpoint. Members of disparate social categories and communities are supposed to generate intellectual excitement on campus by expressing their group’s heretofore suppressed or ignored views.
If diversity is essential in admissions and in faculty hiring for intellectual variety and to challenge established viewpoints, this process may occur in the natural sciences as well as humanities and social sciences. Or do some domains of knowledge have a privileged status exempt from challenge and debate?
West Coast Prof, at 3:40 pm EDT on May 21, 2007
Really. What is the big deal with Cuomo’s Code of Conduct? Anyone who hasn’t actually read them might imagine a lengthy and draconian set of restrictive commandments. In reality there’s nothing there that wouldn’t fit nicely in any consumer protection legislation from the past few years. The Code of Conduct is at:
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2007/apr/apr02a_07.html
Instead, we have Dallas giving Cuomo the high hat in the initial NASFAA response, and dissembling and vagueness ever since. (Except at the spring FAA conferences, where NASFAA speakers are not above whipping up emotions to circle the wagons.)
The Sunshine Act is going to be law. NASFAA’s years of benign neglect are now bearing bitter fruit. If schools can’t handle the Code of Conduct, maybe our problems are deeper than we care to admit.
finaidfollies, at 7:55 am EDT on May 23, 2007
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I am going nuts with the far right’s use of language to justify their whims. We have been blindsided by “intelligent design” which when understood is anything but, and now we have some nutcases who are now hitting us with “intellectual diversity” which seems to mean that if we don’t advocate “intelligent design” we might be harming some poor cherub’s psyche.
I am pleased that enough of MO’s legislature had the wisdom/courage(?)to reject the bill before them, but I am fearful this nonsense is gaining a stonger foothold all the time. Let’s hope rationality will eventually prevail.
Fred Flener, at 1:55 pm EDT on May 21, 2007