I am a High School teacher near Los Angeles 38 years. I have been watching our new teachers come in and display a very low tolerance for discussion and difference of opinion. They are very liberal, give all students passing grades, and have very little regard for teaching the subject matter assigned. They display a very strong need to be liked by their students. Unfortunately, because all their students receive passing grades, students, parents and administration are all happy. These teachers are then put into positions of power.
The cycle of programming liberal thought and poor teaching then continues to grow and other thoughts are met with one of the three types of violence: Physical. Occupational. Social
Our mandatory DEI training is just racism towards Asians and Whites. Presenters do not field questions with respect. Many times they just wave off a question with "we will get to that later".
My Principal even sent out an email to entire staff stating January 6 was an example of systemic racism and had the insurrectionist been brown they would have been met with firepower.
Meanwhile, under his leadership we had two gang rapes on campus in one semester. There may be more, these were just the ones I knew of because those students were on my roster.
Hi, Chris. Thanks for all you do... I just finished Lindsay's "The Marxification of Education" - as usual with such things, left with frustration and irritation at the asymmetric battle ahead of us. How do we rational types who ascribe to "facts don't care about your feelings" battle those who are indoctrinated with an "our feelings don't care about your facts" mindset? Their narrative trumps reality. We can ban materials and programs in schools all we want, but at the end of the day, "educators" (facilitators, groomers) can apply Marxist/Freierian tactics to ANY material - the grooming is in the discussion. Short of cameras, how do you weed out "facilitators" and ensure our classrooms are led by genuine educators...?
It all starts w the teacher ed programs, which indoctrinate the teachers. Graduated one myself in 2004, and we got a tid bit of Freire and CRT stuff. It was in its infancy. I can't imagine what it's like now. Professional trainings are all "Culturally Relevant Teaching" "Differentiation" etc that are complete wastes of time to what actually helps kids learn. Until universities can be reclaimed back to truth and facts, idk. It took us a long time to get here, it's going to take a long time to get out of it, if at all. But there are teachers like myself who don't subscribe to that stuff! Some of us still exist.
Science and math. We are failing and quickly falling behind third world countries. And one of the reasons, if not the main one, is the left’s desire to install equity where it does not belong. Cancelling tests, grades, etc., will make everyone look bad, not everyone look good. Because young people are not equally gifted, talented, hard working, or interested in science. Do folks who push the DEI on us think we are all robots? Bringing our kids’ achievements down to the lowest common denominator is not the solution.
I think it's really poor parenting and unwanted children. More education, more birth control and more abortion is really the answer. The DEI stuff will take care of itself
Education is not a federal function. We need to get back to the original Constitution, the one in which Article I Section 8 was followed. The "general welfare" nonsense given to us by the Supreme Court was, in a word, unconstitutional.
who should take control of local school boards? We don't want centralization of control, do we? As long as communities are in control, isn't that what we want? Keep it local. No state control, no fed control. No Biden, No DeSantis
Yes, the more local the better. The local people should take control of their school boards by running and electing conservative candidates who can then hire competent administrators and principals. Locally.
The question was, "how do you weed out "facilitators" and ensure our classrooms are led by genuine educators...?" You won't accomplish that by electing more liberal school boards.
This is not a question about your activism, per se, but I was wondering how openly conservative activists like you survive socially in your neighborhoods. church, etc. How do you avoid local social "cancel culture"?
Likewise AL! These so-called conservative states are not that conservative when you look at their policies. The AL legislature is finishing up their session. Not one piece of legislation against CRT/DEI/SEL/drag shows, the AL Education Association (AEA) rules (in a right-to-work state!!!), no School Choice (a socialist bill utilizing digital "currency" controlled by the state Dept of Revenue was proposed, but fortunately didn't make it), the State Health Officer is still appointed by a medical board with no accountability to voters (& was called out for complaining about the ban on transgender treatment! He is also a member of the Board of Directors of a group pushing radical Sexxx Ed.)...people don't realize the "Republicans" in AL used to be democrats- and they govern like it! Ivey was all in with Birx and Fauci. Combine that with the SHO having unchecked power- AL was locked down and masked up like every other blue state. The State Supreme Court wouldn't even rule on parent choice in masking children. Unreal!!!
I feel sorry for people who think they are moving to a deep red state, only to be disappointed when they realize it is just like any other place.
In the eyes of the DEI-driven Left, is Catholicism viewed as the new racism? Is anti-Catholicism considered the moral equivalent of anti-racism? These questions are inspired by the Dodgers' decision to honor and host the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
A medical clinic in MN is sending letters to all parents and guardians saying that medical appointments for kids 11 years old and up will include time where the parents are instructed to leave the room. The provider may talk then about how school is going, plans for the future, drugs use, romantic relationships, mental health, sex and IDENTITY. It specifically says that the information will only be shared with parents if the child asks them. Obviously, this is identical to schools and infers a right to privacy for minor children.
What are parents rights to refuse to leave the exam room?
MN is the second state to pass laws deeming themselves to be a trans refugee state. What kind of danger are families in if a child has this private conversation with their doctor and tells them they might be trans, but their parents don’t support it? The law that was signed seems to equate parents who are not supportive of gender transition as participating in “abuse.” Does this then make the doctor a mandatory reporter?
Thank you for all you and The Manhatten Institute are doing. The recent report on the impact of DEI in schools was excellent, but sobering. Perhaps you saw the radical report that EducateUS came out with just a few days later against, "White Christian Nationalists" and the "regressive minority?" Never would I have imagined such divisiveness in our Nation.
Right now in Washington state we are kicking off the referendum on SB 5599 tonite. We will be speaking live in Puyallup and it will also be broadcast to many venues across the state. I'm sure you must be aware of that effort and law?
This is the most egregious attack on our children and parental rights I've ever seen here. We need to collect 200,000 signatures for the referendum by July 20th to put this measure, R-101, on the November 2023 ballot so that we can try and REJECT this law as it was passed.
Simultaneously, we have a parents rights initiative to the legislature for which we must collect 400,000 signatures by mid December. If our legislature does nothing with the initiative, it would go on the November 2024 ballot. If they pass it, the Governor may not veto it. This is the power of the Initiative and the Referendum process when you have an otherwise rogue Government in power.
Any help you might be able to give us here on the front lines of the fight for parental rights in Washington state to elevate this information to the public would be helpful, indeed. We are working hard and taking the local hits for your children and ours here at home. Will you help us?
I’m wondering about the timing of Ken Paxton’s impeachment and your story about Texas childrens hospital. They are deeply into the political left and virtue signaling (while mutilating children). So it’s very suspect that he was impeached a week or so after starting an investigation into Tch.
We are conservative Christians who are considering sending our son to New College this Fall. Is there any plan to promote and protect conservative Freshmen on campus? Will the curriculum be restored to classical western values or remain "woke"?
Great! Yes, there will be a healthy balance of students and faculty, and conservative students will definitely be welcomed on campus. The curriculum will be released over the summer and will be a return to the classical liberal arts. Take a tour! You'll love it.
Rufo isn't being 100% honest with you. He's under pressure to recruit students, because New College's yield rate is so low this year because of the shake-up.
Any curriculum changes will take a couple of years to take effect.
The process is that they have to propose curriculum changes and then edit / revise them until everyone agrees.
They've barely started the process and any good curriculum needs time to design. (Honestly, there isn't even a proposed curriculum, and the Fall semester is only three months away and there's only two more board mtgs before that.
Once the curriculum is approved, it has to go through the Florida Board of Governors to be approved and then the accreditor. That can take a year.
And if the accreditor sanctions New College, because of some of the recent actions of the board, they will not be able to make any curriculum changes until that's resolved.
Complete transparency: There are a ton of open complaints right now from faculty, parents and students to the accreditor (SAACS) and because the takeover of the college has been so public and politicized and the Board of Trustees denied tenure to 4 or 5 professors when they had already been approved, sanction / censure from the accreditor is very likely, so it's doubtful any meaningful curriculum change can happen this year.
So best case scenario, the incoming class of 2025 or 26 *might* have a western classical curriculum. If they can even keep faculty from fleeing or recruit new faculty, which they are having trouble doing.
They've had some heads of departments leave in computer science, data science, and even a conservative philosophy professor has left because Rufo and the other Trustees decided to deny tenure to a bunch of professors, mainly in the natural sciences, just to make a political statement that they have the power to do it, even if the professors are deserving. Some of these professors have PhDs for MIT and other Ivy League schools and they're fleeing.
Talented professors, conservative or liberal, seek university jobs that have secure tenure. Without that, New College will continue to see a brain drain and have trouble recruiting, because EVERYONE likes job security.
In fact, so many professors are taking their research leave next year, because of how toxic the takeover has been, that whole departments might not be able to offer classes. And this is actually affecting more of the natural sciences than something like gender studies.
I say this in all sincerity: if you truly want your kid to go to a conservative campus with a Christian conservative curriculum, New College is not for you. It's a great college in a lot of ways but consider:
1. the campus is still very liberal and queer friendly and that will take most of the decade to change, if it can be changed. (Many students are staying and moving even more to the left to protest what's happening. Basically, the campus is becoming more left-leaning activist space as an act of rebellion.)
2. the school is in the center of a political maelstrom and is in an unstable place where professors are leaving / planning on leaving, there will lots of protests / civil unrest, and has a curriculum and culture that has an uncertain future. If students/faculty flee, the college will most likely close.
I'd send you student someplace more stable where you KNOW for sure they're going to get the education they want -- and they don't have the stress of being in the center of a bunch of political drama that's only going to get worse now that the 2024 presidential election is gearing up.
Hi. I'm sorry to say Shanon is right. Christopher Rufo hasn't been on campus in some time, but as you can see from pieces in Tampa and Sarasota news outlets, the takeover of the school has not gone well. Best of luck to you and your child.
Rufo isn't being 100% honest with you. He's under pressure to recruit students, because New College's yield rate is so low this year because of the shake-up.
Any curriculum changes will take a couple of years to take effect.
The process is that they have to propose curriculum changes and then edit / revise them until everyone agrees.
They've barely started the process and any good curriculum needs time to design.
Once approved, it has to go through the Florida Board of Governors to be approved and then the accreditor. That can take a year.
And if the accreditor sanctions New College, because of some of the recent actions of the board, they will not be able to make any curriculum changes until that's resolved.
So best case scenario, the incoming class of 2025 or 26 *might* have a western classical curriculum. If they can even keep faculty from fleeing or recruit new faculty, which they are having trouble doing.
They've had some heads of departments leave in computer science, data science, and even a conservative philosophy professor has left because Rufo and the other Trustees decided to deny tenure to a bunch of professors, mainly in the natural sciences, just to make a political statement that they have the power to do it, even if the professors are deserving. Some of these professors have PhDs for MIT and other Ivy League schools and they're fleeing.
Talented professors, conservative or liberal, seek university jobs that have secure tenure. Without that, New College will continue to see a brain drain and have trouble recruiting, because EVERYONE likes job security.
In fact, so many professors are taking their research leave next year, because of how toxic the takeover has been, that whole departments might not be able to offer classes. And this is actually affecting more of the natural sciences than something like gender studies.
I say this in all sincerity: if you truly want your kid to go to a conservative campus with a Christian conservative curriculum, New College is not for you. It's a great college in a lot of ways but consider:
1. the campus is still very liberal and queer friendly and that will take most of the decade to change, if it can be changed.
2. the school is in the center of a political maelstrom and is in an unstable place.
I'd send you student someplace more stable where you KNOW for sure they're going to get the education they want -- and they don't have the stress of being in the center of a bunch of political drama that's only going to get worse now that the 2024 presidential election is gearing up.
How does one follow/reveal the money that makes all of the protesting by the DEI/woke/phobia-labelling crowd possible? These people have to eat, have a place to sleep, sh*t, shower, and shave.
You will not be shocked to learn that even the Rotary Club has adopted DEI policies-with their new president- since 2019 !And they are supposed to be NONE political.what is the most efficient way to denounce them publicly?Thank you for all you do to save our civilization.
I'm convinced university bureaucracies will "game" any prohibitions/restrictions on DEI, affirmative action, etc. How do we address this? Legal actions?? Thanks
There are 3 issues (at least) that our political class keep beyond the range of democratic accountability (meaning that no votes or rulings will impede them and their goals/needs):
The first of course being war, which is too big a business and mints too many millionaires and generals to let the plebes interfere;
The second is illegal immigration, which is too important to both sides (the Republican masters are addicted to cheap labor, the Democrats are addicted to displaying how deeply they love the brown and poor);
The third is "affirmative action" or social engineering by race, which our businesses use to ward off lawsuits and academia uses as a prerogative of nobility and their existential need to be White Saviors.
Thus, it makes no difference what the Supreme Court rules, there is nothing short of a military occupation of every college admissions office that would stop AA. If anything, the racial transfiguration of every American institution will proceed apace (and maybe even increase), because it is too crucial a sacred belief of our ruling class for them to relinquish.
Yes, the DEI structure has lots of support in the rest of the bureaucracy. At best they will lay low until the storm passes and then resume their efforts in some other guise. They can do this bc taxpayers are supporting them. We need a way to selectively defund/unemploy the worst actors.
Personnel is policy: What happens when the Woke administration and staff of Texas universities pledge to covertly continue DEI by other means, in defiance of the letter of the law?
Compare California universities, which clearly practice race-based preferences in defiance of the will of the people.
I am a High School teacher near Los Angeles 38 years. I have been watching our new teachers come in and display a very low tolerance for discussion and difference of opinion. They are very liberal, give all students passing grades, and have very little regard for teaching the subject matter assigned. They display a very strong need to be liked by their students. Unfortunately, because all their students receive passing grades, students, parents and administration are all happy. These teachers are then put into positions of power.
The cycle of programming liberal thought and poor teaching then continues to grow and other thoughts are met with one of the three types of violence: Physical. Occupational. Social
Our mandatory DEI training is just racism towards Asians and Whites. Presenters do not field questions with respect. Many times they just wave off a question with "we will get to that later".
My Principal even sent out an email to entire staff stating January 6 was an example of systemic racism and had the insurrectionist been brown they would have been met with firepower.
Meanwhile, under his leadership we had two gang rapes on campus in one semester. There may be more, these were just the ones I knew of because those students were on my roster.
Well, thanks for all you do.
Hang in there and God bless.
Hang in there, man. God bless you for what you're doing.
Hi, Chris. Thanks for all you do... I just finished Lindsay's "The Marxification of Education" - as usual with such things, left with frustration and irritation at the asymmetric battle ahead of us. How do we rational types who ascribe to "facts don't care about your feelings" battle those who are indoctrinated with an "our feelings don't care about your facts" mindset? Their narrative trumps reality. We can ban materials and programs in schools all we want, but at the end of the day, "educators" (facilitators, groomers) can apply Marxist/Freierian tactics to ANY material - the grooming is in the discussion. Short of cameras, how do you weed out "facilitators" and ensure our classrooms are led by genuine educators...?
It all starts w the teacher ed programs, which indoctrinate the teachers. Graduated one myself in 2004, and we got a tid bit of Freire and CRT stuff. It was in its infancy. I can't imagine what it's like now. Professional trainings are all "Culturally Relevant Teaching" "Differentiation" etc that are complete wastes of time to what actually helps kids learn. Until universities can be reclaimed back to truth and facts, idk. It took us a long time to get here, it's going to take a long time to get out of it, if at all. But there are teachers like myself who don't subscribe to that stuff! Some of us still exist.
We need better science education for sure. and apply it. on both sides.
Science and math. We are failing and quickly falling behind third world countries. And one of the reasons, if not the main one, is the left’s desire to install equity where it does not belong. Cancelling tests, grades, etc., will make everyone look bad, not everyone look good. Because young people are not equally gifted, talented, hard working, or interested in science. Do folks who push the DEI on us think we are all robots? Bringing our kids’ achievements down to the lowest common denominator is not the solution.
I think it's really poor parenting and unwanted children. More education, more birth control and more abortion is really the answer. The DEI stuff will take care of itself
Amen to that -- scientific illiteracy is ubiquitous, pervasive, and pernicious. And on all points of the political spectrum.
First, stop funding our enemies via federal programs (eliminate DOE). Second, take take control of local school boards.
Education is not a federal function. We need to get back to the original Constitution, the one in which Article I Section 8 was followed. The "general welfare" nonsense given to us by the Supreme Court was, in a word, unconstitutional.
who should take control of local school boards? We don't want centralization of control, do we? As long as communities are in control, isn't that what we want? Keep it local. No state control, no fed control. No Biden, No DeSantis
Yes, the more local the better. The local people should take control of their school boards by running and electing conservative candidates who can then hire competent administrators and principals. Locally.
Local people come in all flavors. If you believe in local control you shouldn't be trying to specify conservative vs. liberal vs..................
The question was, "how do you weed out "facilitators" and ensure our classrooms are led by genuine educators...?" You won't accomplish that by electing more liberal school boards.
Yes exactly. Its difficult to know how to fight this.
Rufo basically said you can move to smaller communities and pay for private schools. All good now?
This is not a question about your activism, per se, but I was wondering how openly conservative activists like you survive socially in your neighborhoods. church, etc. How do you avoid local social "cancel culture"?
And thanks for all you do!
Thanks for taking my question, Chris. Yes, I think moving out of CA is somewhere in my future.
I just watched a lecture by Heather MacDonald on what is going on in medical schools. You may have seen it at https://www.c-span.org/video/?528068-1/heather-mac-donald-speaks-republican-national-lawyers-association-policy-conference&fbclid=IwAR1Dr56lIusEEARdELF2AKFgD7zTz3lEyGXcTyGfJDZytivwCnD7xWV0Lbo . It's unbelieveable. It's as if the world is going mad. I attended Penn and I, and Penn medical staff, and medical students had to attend online diversity seminars. The Dean of Penn's Medical School wrote a message to us that said: "I write to share with you that the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will no longer contribute data to U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) for its medical school rankings.... The Perelman School of Medicine aims to serve the needs of a changing world, including diverse communities". In otherwords we are going to allow in unqualified black applicants and that will lower our admission scores and make us look bad so we are going to hide them from U.S. News and World Report. https://www.med.upenn.edu/evpdeancommunications/2023-01-24-314.html Dean Jameson has also removed the MCAT requirement for black students only (see https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2022/may/perelman-school-of-medicine-partners-with-hbcus-to-increase-student-diversity-in-medicine) That is illegal discrimination. I don't understand how out institutions have become so crazy. Why is it that the left was able to take over?
Why has Texas fallen to DIE? What is really happening with Ken Paxton and would his potential removal change things?
Answered this on the livestream earlier today!
Likewise AL! These so-called conservative states are not that conservative when you look at their policies. The AL legislature is finishing up their session. Not one piece of legislation against CRT/DEI/SEL/drag shows, the AL Education Association (AEA) rules (in a right-to-work state!!!), no School Choice (a socialist bill utilizing digital "currency" controlled by the state Dept of Revenue was proposed, but fortunately didn't make it), the State Health Officer is still appointed by a medical board with no accountability to voters (& was called out for complaining about the ban on transgender treatment! He is also a member of the Board of Directors of a group pushing radical Sexxx Ed.)...people don't realize the "Republicans" in AL used to be democrats- and they govern like it! Ivey was all in with Birx and Fauci. Combine that with the SHO having unchecked power- AL was locked down and masked up like every other blue state. The State Supreme Court wouldn't even rule on parent choice in masking children. Unreal!!!
I feel sorry for people who think they are moving to a deep red state, only to be disappointed when they realize it is just like any other place.
Florida is not...just need to move "deeper".
Why is the mainstream GOP afraid to address election integrity, and how do we change that?
In the eyes of the DEI-driven Left, is Catholicism viewed as the new racism? Is anti-Catholicism considered the moral equivalent of anti-racism? These questions are inspired by the Dodgers' decision to honor and host the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
A medical clinic in MN is sending letters to all parents and guardians saying that medical appointments for kids 11 years old and up will include time where the parents are instructed to leave the room. The provider may talk then about how school is going, plans for the future, drugs use, romantic relationships, mental health, sex and IDENTITY. It specifically says that the information will only be shared with parents if the child asks them. Obviously, this is identical to schools and infers a right to privacy for minor children.
What are parents rights to refuse to leave the exam room?
That's crazy. I would protest this vigorously. Not sure on the law in Minnesota, but you should check to see what rights parents have in that state.
MN is the second state to pass laws deeming themselves to be a trans refugee state. What kind of danger are families in if a child has this private conversation with their doctor and tells them they might be trans, but their parents don’t support it? The law that was signed seems to equate parents who are not supportive of gender transition as participating in “abuse.” Does this then make the doctor a mandatory reporter?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-advances-trans-refuge-bill-opponents-strip-custody-non-consenting-parents
Thank God my children are grown, I'd be adding a hidden recording device to my child before allowing that kind of visit.
😳 take your children and run
Dear Mr. Rufo,
Thank you for all you and The Manhatten Institute are doing. The recent report on the impact of DEI in schools was excellent, but sobering. Perhaps you saw the radical report that EducateUS came out with just a few days later against, "White Christian Nationalists" and the "regressive minority?" Never would I have imagined such divisiveness in our Nation.
Right now in Washington state we are kicking off the referendum on SB 5599 tonite. We will be speaking live in Puyallup and it will also be broadcast to many venues across the state. I'm sure you must be aware of that effort and law?
This is the most egregious attack on our children and parental rights I've ever seen here. We need to collect 200,000 signatures for the referendum by July 20th to put this measure, R-101, on the November 2023 ballot so that we can try and REJECT this law as it was passed.
Simultaneously, we have a parents rights initiative to the legislature for which we must collect 400,000 signatures by mid December. If our legislature does nothing with the initiative, it would go on the November 2024 ballot. If they pass it, the Governor may not veto it. This is the power of the Initiative and the Referendum process when you have an otherwise rogue Government in power.
Any help you might be able to give us here on the front lines of the fight for parental rights in Washington state to elevate this information to the public would be helpful, indeed. We are working hard and taking the local hits for your children and ours here at home. Will you help us?
Thank you,
Sarah Garriott
I’m wondering about the timing of Ken Paxton’s impeachment and your story about Texas childrens hospital. They are deeply into the political left and virtue signaling (while mutilating children). So it’s very suspect that he was impeached a week or so after starting an investigation into Tch.
We are conservative Christians who are considering sending our son to New College this Fall. Is there any plan to promote and protect conservative Freshmen on campus? Will the curriculum be restored to classical western values or remain "woke"?
Great! Yes, there will be a healthy balance of students and faculty, and conservative students will definitely be welcomed on campus. The curriculum will be released over the summer and will be a return to the classical liberal arts. Take a tour! You'll love it.
Dear BGW,
I'm afraid Shanon's reponse to you is accurate--more so than Mr. Rufo's. Keep in mind that he has not been on campus much lately. Best of luck to you.
Rufo isn't being 100% honest with you. He's under pressure to recruit students, because New College's yield rate is so low this year because of the shake-up.
Any curriculum changes will take a couple of years to take effect.
The process is that they have to propose curriculum changes and then edit / revise them until everyone agrees.
They've barely started the process and any good curriculum needs time to design. (Honestly, there isn't even a proposed curriculum, and the Fall semester is only three months away and there's only two more board mtgs before that.
Once the curriculum is approved, it has to go through the Florida Board of Governors to be approved and then the accreditor. That can take a year.
And if the accreditor sanctions New College, because of some of the recent actions of the board, they will not be able to make any curriculum changes until that's resolved.
Complete transparency: There are a ton of open complaints right now from faculty, parents and students to the accreditor (SAACS) and because the takeover of the college has been so public and politicized and the Board of Trustees denied tenure to 4 or 5 professors when they had already been approved, sanction / censure from the accreditor is very likely, so it's doubtful any meaningful curriculum change can happen this year.
So best case scenario, the incoming class of 2025 or 26 *might* have a western classical curriculum. If they can even keep faculty from fleeing or recruit new faculty, which they are having trouble doing.
They've had some heads of departments leave in computer science, data science, and even a conservative philosophy professor has left because Rufo and the other Trustees decided to deny tenure to a bunch of professors, mainly in the natural sciences, just to make a political statement that they have the power to do it, even if the professors are deserving. Some of these professors have PhDs for MIT and other Ivy League schools and they're fleeing.
Talented professors, conservative or liberal, seek university jobs that have secure tenure. Without that, New College will continue to see a brain drain and have trouble recruiting, because EVERYONE likes job security.
In fact, so many professors are taking their research leave next year, because of how toxic the takeover has been, that whole departments might not be able to offer classes. And this is actually affecting more of the natural sciences than something like gender studies.
I say this in all sincerity: if you truly want your kid to go to a conservative campus with a Christian conservative curriculum, New College is not for you. It's a great college in a lot of ways but consider:
1. the campus is still very liberal and queer friendly and that will take most of the decade to change, if it can be changed. (Many students are staying and moving even more to the left to protest what's happening. Basically, the campus is becoming more left-leaning activist space as an act of rebellion.)
2. the school is in the center of a political maelstrom and is in an unstable place where professors are leaving / planning on leaving, there will lots of protests / civil unrest, and has a curriculum and culture that has an uncertain future. If students/faculty flee, the college will most likely close.
I'd send you student someplace more stable where you KNOW for sure they're going to get the education they want -- and they don't have the stress of being in the center of a bunch of political drama that's only going to get worse now that the 2024 presidential election is gearing up.
Do what's right for your student and family.
We are considering New College for our rising senior and have the same concerns.
Hi. I'm sorry to say Shanon is right. Christopher Rufo hasn't been on campus in some time, but as you can see from pieces in Tampa and Sarasota news outlets, the takeover of the school has not gone well. Best of luck to you and your child.
Rufo isn't being 100% honest with you. He's under pressure to recruit students, because New College's yield rate is so low this year because of the shake-up.
Any curriculum changes will take a couple of years to take effect.
The process is that they have to propose curriculum changes and then edit / revise them until everyone agrees.
They've barely started the process and any good curriculum needs time to design.
Once approved, it has to go through the Florida Board of Governors to be approved and then the accreditor. That can take a year.
And if the accreditor sanctions New College, because of some of the recent actions of the board, they will not be able to make any curriculum changes until that's resolved.
So best case scenario, the incoming class of 2025 or 26 *might* have a western classical curriculum. If they can even keep faculty from fleeing or recruit new faculty, which they are having trouble doing.
They've had some heads of departments leave in computer science, data science, and even a conservative philosophy professor has left because Rufo and the other Trustees decided to deny tenure to a bunch of professors, mainly in the natural sciences, just to make a political statement that they have the power to do it, even if the professors are deserving. Some of these professors have PhDs for MIT and other Ivy League schools and they're fleeing.
Talented professors, conservative or liberal, seek university jobs that have secure tenure. Without that, New College will continue to see a brain drain and have trouble recruiting, because EVERYONE likes job security.
In fact, so many professors are taking their research leave next year, because of how toxic the takeover has been, that whole departments might not be able to offer classes. And this is actually affecting more of the natural sciences than something like gender studies.
I say this in all sincerity: if you truly want your kid to go to a conservative campus with a Christian conservative curriculum, New College is not for you. It's a great college in a lot of ways but consider:
1. the campus is still very liberal and queer friendly and that will take most of the decade to change, if it can be changed.
2. the school is in the center of a political maelstrom and is in an unstable place.
I'd send you student someplace more stable where you KNOW for sure they're going to get the education they want -- and they don't have the stress of being in the center of a bunch of political drama that's only going to get worse now that the 2024 presidential election is gearing up.
Do what's right for your student and family.
How does one follow/reveal the money that makes all of the protesting by the DEI/woke/phobia-labelling crowd possible? These people have to eat, have a place to sleep, sh*t, shower, and shave.
Some can be learned through public records, but much of it is hidden from the public.
And the hidden part is likely the largest portion.
Why is there need for DIE when median inheritances among groups are nearly identical (~$90k)?
You will not be shocked to learn that even the Rotary Club has adopted DEI policies-with their new president- since 2019 !And they are supposed to be NONE political.what is the most efficient way to denounce them publicly?Thank you for all you do to save our civilization.
I'm convinced university bureaucracies will "game" any prohibitions/restrictions on DEI, affirmative action, etc. How do we address this? Legal actions?? Thanks
There are 3 issues (at least) that our political class keep beyond the range of democratic accountability (meaning that no votes or rulings will impede them and their goals/needs):
The first of course being war, which is too big a business and mints too many millionaires and generals to let the plebes interfere;
The second is illegal immigration, which is too important to both sides (the Republican masters are addicted to cheap labor, the Democrats are addicted to displaying how deeply they love the brown and poor);
The third is "affirmative action" or social engineering by race, which our businesses use to ward off lawsuits and academia uses as a prerogative of nobility and their existential need to be White Saviors.
Thus, it makes no difference what the Supreme Court rules, there is nothing short of a military occupation of every college admissions office that would stop AA. If anything, the racial transfiguration of every American institution will proceed apace (and maybe even increase), because it is too crucial a sacred belief of our ruling class for them to relinquish.
Yes, the DEI structure has lots of support in the rest of the bureaucracy. At best they will lay low until the storm passes and then resume their efforts in some other guise. They can do this bc taxpayers are supporting them. We need a way to selectively defund/unemploy the worst actors.
Personnel is policy: What happens when the Woke administration and staff of Texas universities pledge to covertly continue DEI by other means, in defiance of the letter of the law?
Compare California universities, which clearly practice race-based preferences in defiance of the will of the people.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/elites-to-anti-affirmative-action-voters-drop-dead
Woke UT officials are already pledging to continue their diversity efforts in any way possible.