Search Results for “whiteness” – The College Fix

Western Illinois U. ‘Day of Racial Healing’ includes ‘Racism for White People’ event

College Fix Staff — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:55:18 +0000

Gain a ‘cognitive multicultural consciousness’ Western Illinois University will be holding its first “Day of Racial Healing” in conjunction with the national effort beginning the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The title is something of a misnomer, however, as related happenings will occur throughout the month. A first-day event is titled “Racism for White People…

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72 things higher ed declared racist in 2023

Matt Lamb - Associate Editor — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 05:06:02 +0000

ANALYSIS: Actual racism is rare today, but academia continues to find it Racism is still alive and well in society – if you ask academia. The College Fix reported on 72 things this year that were declared racist or in need of “anti-racist” action, thus indicating they currently suffer from racism. Actions Not wearing a mask Animals Robert E. Lee’s horse Black people Black cops who…

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School district ousts principal for holding racially exclusive student assembly – but why??

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:33:51 +0000

An elementary school in Florida recently hired a new principal to replace one who was suspended and eventually resigned at the beginning of the school year. The latter, Donelle Evensen, had helped organized a racially exclusive assembly for black fourth and fifth graders to encourage them to raise their state test scores. Evensen is white. Anthony Hines, the now-former fifth-grade facilitator…

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Music education ‘remains inherently racist,’ scholars say

Benjamin Rothove - University of Wisconsin Madison — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:05:55 +0000

‘Anti-racist war machines’ needed Music education programs in the United States “serve a White-normative, Eurocentric model,” and the admissions process for those programs “remains inherently racist,” according to a recent academic paper. The paper, titled “Disrupting Racism in Music Education: Conceptualizing Admissions Processes Through the State and the War Machine,” was authored by Erika…

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Stanford DEI team wants ‘diversity of opinions’ but details unclear

Dakota Powell - Wheaton College — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:04:34 +0000

ANALYSIS: Stanford said it wants open debate, but its history and other promises say otherwise Stanford University officials want to see a “diversity of opinions” on campus as part of their new “Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access” plans. But they won’t answer questions on how they plan to do that, particularly as its DEI plan and other projects includes initiatives that appear to support…

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Another kid tarred for ‘blackface,’ this time by anti-white, anti-trans sports writer

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 13:33:47 +0000

Where’s the LGBTQ community? Writer said men in drag ‘pretend,’ are ‘not women’ One of the big scuttlebutts on social media this past week was a sports writer from Deadspin going after a nine-year-old boy in attendance at Sunday’s Chiefs-Raiders game who wore a Native American headdress and face paint. Carron Phillips (pictured), who used to write for my local paper (now known as Delaware…

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Presbyterian chaplain planned BDSM workshop on campus with dominatrix

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:02:51 +0000

Tennessee school cancels workshop: ‘Not a college-sanctioned event’ A BDSM sex workshop to be hosted by a campus chaplain and taught by a dominatrix was canceled this month at Rhodes College in Tennessee after sparking backlash. The Rev. Beatrix Weil, a Presbyterian Church USA pastor and chaplain at the private college, organized the BDSM 101 workshop to be held on campus, FOX 13 reported.

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College play about gay interracial love affair canceled after outrage: ‘romanticizes slavery’

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:05:56 +0000

Another conundrum in the ever-expanding realm of intersectionality A play about interracial gay love at California’s Santa Monica College faced major blowback — allegations that the story “romanticizes slavery.” “By the River Rivanna” by G. Bruce Smith takes place in 1850 and centers on a (white) slave owner and (black) slave who “hide a secret love affair,” The Los Angeles Times reports.

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Progressive teachers want ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ banished from curriculum

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:04:06 +0000

Washington Post frames teachers as principled and righteous, opposition as ‘fierce’ There’s been a lot of discussion lately about book “banning,” primarily focused on conservative parents’ and politicians’ efforts to restrict access to material which is sexually explicit. While these efforts often have been labeled everything from “terrorism” to “scary” to a “threat to the Republic,”…

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Professor ‘totally shocked’ at rural educators’ answers regarding diversity: ‘really off the wall’

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 13:50:39 +0000

‘Whiteness, and White privilege are unpopular and avoided topics’ A professor of education at the University of New Mexico doesn’t think much of Wyoming principals and superintendents when it comes to diversity and social justice. William “Toby” Holmes, a Native American who researches “leadership communications, Motivating Language Theory, and Culturally Sustaining Instructional Leadership,”…

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