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Thursday, March 24, 2005

Diversity is what?

Some of us at Colby have tried to challenge the dogmatic belief in "diversity" that consumes Colby and many other "elite" college campuses:
the debate club at Colby College in Waterville, Maine invited me to debate the role of "diversity" in higher education with, they hoped, the president of the College, William Adams... In all the debate club invited 13 members of the administration and the faculty to debate me.  They all declined.  President "Bro," who was given an open-ended invitation to set the date, said that he was too busy and needed more time to prepare than he had available.  The other administrators, who in the words of one of the students, “make their living off of ‘diversity,’” just flat-out refused.

Now the Princeton Review has released part of its criteria for determining if a university is diverse or "monochromatic":


Diversity University Monochromatic Institute
Lots of Race/Class Interaction Little Race/Class Interaction
Diverse Student Population Homogeneous Student Population
Students Ignore God on a Regular Basis Students Pray on a Regular Basis
Gay Community Accepted Alternative Lifestyles Not An Alternative


Now 1,2 and 4 make sense to me but "Students Ignore God on a Regular Basis" is diversity?

Seems to me that real diversity is some "Students Ignore God on a Regular Basis" while other "Students Pray on a Regular Basis". Or how about: Students have a wide range of religious beliefs?

Just another example of American Academia's fundamentalist belief in DIVERSITY

2 Comments:

  • At 11:03 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I think the point Princeton Review is making with their rubrich is more to refer to Christian Universities.

    Poorly worded, yes, but "Students ignoring God on a regular basis" is about the school being secular (not aethiest) as opposed to being theological.

    If you look at it that way, they have their categories in proper alignment.

    Fresh beats, as always-
    DJ Scrizzle

     
  • At 6:02 AM, Blogger Norma said…

    From what I see of "diversity" on large campuses, there is very little interaction, in fact, may have separate dining and living areas approved and encouraged by the administration. So that criteria doesn't fit.

    I think I attended Colby. Got a photo to post?

     

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