Here, excerpted from Blake Neff’s article at dailycaller.com, is our latest installment of Academic Brownshirts On Parade:
A group of students at Seattle University have taken over a university dean’s office, saying they won’t leave unless the dean resigns and the school grants a set of demands that would heavily politicize the humanities curriculum.
Matteo Ricci College is one of eight schools at Seattle University, and focuses on the study of humanities. But the students who have taken over dean Jodi Kelly’s office say the college’s current curriculum is utterly stifling, and they have published a lengthy list of demands for changes.
Chief among their demands is an order for the school to adopt a new curriculum that “decentralizes Whiteness and has a critical focus on the evolution of systems of oppression such as racism, capitalism, colonialism, etc.” The curriculum should be taught by “professors of color and queer professors” and should place particular emphasis not on traditional educational concepts but instead on “racism, gentrification, sexism, colonialism, imperialism, global white supremacy, and other ethical questions about systems of power.”
One of the protesters, 22-year-old Fiza Muhammad, told The Stranger this demand was necessary to undermine Matteo Ricci’s current focus on the Western canon, which she dismissed as the work of old, racist, sexist white men.
I can count on one hand how many people of color I’ve read in the four years that I’ve been here,” she said.
The demands also request a substantial amount of re-education for professors, so they will be more prepared to deal with “microaggressions” on campus.
Yep, that’s sure to prepare the students for the workforce….
If Dean Jodi Kelly has any courage – or common sense – she will tell this bunch of whining leftists to take a long walk on a short pier. Maybe a couple will be able to fish out a dungeness crab…which will at least make them useful.
I am hoping against hope that Dean Kelly is not going to travel the same route as some foolish, delusional academicians, and try to placate hardline drones who cannot be placated. But, based on how frequently such people have caved in to this kind useless BS, I’m not confident.
Let me end with a quick question for all the mommies and daddies paying tuition for their children go to to this college: Is this what you want your money to be used for? Will you be pleased if this is the curriculum it will pay for? If so, will you be confident the school will have facilitated your children becoming knowledgeable, capable, productive members of society?
Just asking……
