President Pollack’s July 16 letter to the community charged the Faculty Senate to develop proposals for
(a) An Antiracism Center ( Working Group C )
(b) A For-Credit Educational Requirement for Students (Working Group S)
(c) A Required Educational Program for Faculty (Working Group F)
The Working Groups submitted their reports to the Senate where they were debated. The Senate voted on all three parts of the initiative. Vote tallies and voter comments.
Familiarity with this terminology, these references and resources and these related efforts in the colleges is important. See also these Senate discussions and presentations.
July 22, 2022 Report from Deputy Provost and Presidential Advisor on Diversity & Equity Avery August
Any ideology that asks people to judge others based on their skin color is wrong. Any ideology that asks us to reduce ourselves and others to racial stereotypes is wrong. Any ideology that treats dissent as evidence of bigotry is wrong. Any ideology that denies our common humanity is wrong.
Fighting racism with racial essentialism is fighting fire with fire.
Thank you for the work! Would it be possible to add “colorism” to both the terminology section and the reports themselves? Since the term is omitted from all three reports, they make it sound like discrimination is something that only happens between clearly defined racial groups and not within those groups as well.
In driving change in society or organizations, two kinds of audiences are where efforts often founder. It’s good to know how to engage effectively.
How much outreach have you done to parts of the university that have not been engaged, but are probably among the intended audience.
1. Those who share the goal of a just future, but find the language to be alienating (the need for a glossary indicates that the organizers are aware that they are using insider jargon or constructs that tend to alienate outsiders).
2. Those who are indifferent to the goal or are not persuaded that the center is an appropriate activity for the university.
Looking forward to the work.