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| Subject: Professors asked to pimp nutty progressive causes in UW Seattle diversity guide Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:22 pm | |
| Acknowledge the University of Washington campus is on land stolen from Native Americans. Use gender-neutral, culturally diverse names in examples. Stop believing being overweight is unhealthy.
These are actual recommendations from a UW diversity document I discovered while talking with a professor who says he’s been demoted and placed on probation because the school administration disagrees with his libertarian political views. What’s worse, the administration seems willing to placate a group of hypersensitive, progressive activist-students and faculty seeking to purge opposing political viewpoints from campus. Stuart Reges is a lecturer in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. After sustained pressure from campus progressives to get him fired, Reges was demoted to a one-year probationary appointment where he lost his primary duties. “We’ve been trying to hire teaching faculty for years, and I am the only lecturer who hasn’t been reappointed for a three year period, which seems crazy,” Reges told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH. “I’m also the most senior. I have the highest faculty rank, and I’m the only faculty member who has won the highest teaching award that the university has. So it just seems clear that there was something else going on in this vote.” The something else seems clear to him and me: He’s a libertarian who doesn’t subscribe to the far left campus orthodoxy. And I think the proof is how the UW responded to absurd student complaints. Reges says the UW created a working group of faculty members to review intro computer science courses to ensure they’re inclusive enough. The recommendations they drafted are remarkable.
More: https://mynorthwest.com/1669463/professors-progressive-uw-seattle-diversity/
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