Stanley K. Ridgley, Author at Minding The Campus
DEI on Campus? It’s a Protection Racket| Minding The Campus
DEI on Campus? It’s a Protection Racket| Minding The Campus
WATCH: Science Bargains with Trump, Protesters Storm NSF, and Slugs Go Solar| Minding The Campus
Ohio SB 1, which will do an extraordinary amount to depoliticize Ohio’s public higher education system, strengthen intellectual diversity, and restore its accountability to Ohio policymakers and citizens, well and truly will become law. Governor Mike DeWine signed SB 1 into law at the end of March. Since then, Ohio professors organized a petition campaign […]| Minding The Campus
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shuttered its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) office, eliminated diversity statements from faculty job applications, and cut its Vice President of Equity and Inclusion position. A promising step, but don’t be fooled—DEI persists at MIT. It hasn’t been rebranded; it’s still openly embedded. Interdepartmental committees thrive, and numerous administrative […]| Minding The Campus
When some gangsters force you to take a "service" you don't want and threaten to seize your property or life if you don't pay for it... We all know that's actually just extortion, a protection racket where they are stealing money from you, regardless of whether they actually provide you some supposed benefit in return. Unless it's the State. Then suddenly it's...okay?| Flickr
“Nice university you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” That brutish gangster threat is the “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hustle in its most succinct form. It captures the protection racket that has plagued American higher education for the past five years, certainly since the hot, violent summer of 2020 coerced […]| Minding The Campus
