Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Mandating Ideological Conformity   [George Leef]

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Virginia Association of Scholars president Carey Stronach writes about the push by administrators at Virginia Tech to make conformity to their "diversity religion" a key element in the promotion of faculty members. Anyone who doesn't display "diversity accomplishments" is apt to be looked upon with disfavor.

Would any Virginia Tech professor be so bold as to criticize the diversity mania, saying perhaps that it's a foolish distraction from the real business of education? Doing so would be a dangerous move.

Whether professors have any "diversity accomplishments" or not should be as irrelevant as whether they have "religious accomplishments" or "chess accomplishments" or "gardening accomplishments." If the administrators involved cannot see that subordinating real academic work to their "diversity" crusade is inappropriate, they should be summarily replaced.

10/28 01:57 PMShare