While Racialist Staffers busily work to Subvert the Law
Scott Yenor has crafted an excellent piece for the City Journal that details how difficult it is to rein-in DEI offices that exceed their mandates and attempt to exert racialist-inspired control over the entire university.
He focuses on the University of Texas system, and the model of noncompliance is so recognizable as to be routine among colleges and universities that seek to elude the guarantees of the U.S. Constitution and various provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dr. Yenor notes that Texas administrators are quibbling by offering ”paper compliance, strategic obfuscation, and open defiance.“
Where does this resistance to fundamental human rights and U.S. Law originate? The source of it is no mystery, and we needn’t look hard to find it.
The source of the actual noncompliance problem in universities and colleges is clear and easily identifiable — it is the ancillary support staff who serve in students affairs and in various pretentious roles in what is called the ”co-curriculum.“
As long as the current ancillary support staff in university bureaucracies remain in place, particularly in DEI, Student Affairs, and the so-called ”co-curriculum,“ they will always subvert what they consider ”outside interference“ with their commitment to ”social justice“ and their stated goal to transform the university. They clearly state this commitment to subvert the modern university, and I detail this in my book BRUTAL MINDS.
They have up-sold themselves and self-identify as ”college educators,“ like faculty, and they are all trained in the same noxious social justice doctrine, the majority of them in our abysmal schools of education, long-ago subverted with Freirean/Fanonian ideology. It’s a lockstep groupthink orthodoxy.
Too many of these support personnel have an exaggerated and pretentious sense of their role on the campuses. They consider themselves ”college educators“ like faculty, not just ancillary support staff, which is what they are — keeping students healthy, housed, and fed, ensuring that the pizza’s hot and the sound system works for karaoke night.
But like Don Quixote, they hanker for something more, so they can ”finally get to use my master’s degree“ in absurdist education theory.
There’s an entire literature on how these folks — as ”college educators“ — should be running collaborations with other ”college educators,“ such as faculty.
It’s a Don Quixotesque self-valorization of clerks, enrollment managers, residence life staffers, and assorted advisors, who use their access to students to message them 24-7 in racialist essentialism, ”social justice“ education, and even illicit racialist psychotherapy administered in ”privilege walks,“ ”difficult dialogues,“ ”courageous conversations,“ ”racial caucuses,“ ”brave spaces,“ and similarly named activities.
These ancillary personnel must be replaced, and the effort should extend for as long as it takes to replace them with persons who owe allegiance to their actual jobs of keeping students happy, healthy, housed, and fed . . . and not to ideological ”social justice“ goals of ”boldly transforming higher education,“ which is far outside their purview and is driven by an alien and primitive ideology.
This ”transforming“ is the motto of one of the off-campus organizations that exerts excessive influence on the higher education bureaucracies — the ACPA. Another group, NASPA, is equally noxious and equally influential. Universities and colleges should completely decouple from these two groups. Ban these intellectually subversive groups and the persons affiliated with them from the campuses, and you take a major step forward in reforming our colleges and universities.
If not, then we face endless replication of the situation that is ongoing at the University of Texas at Austin, with ancillary support personnel subverting the aim of legislation designed to restore our universities to their Enlightenment mission of educating the next generation in the best that has been thought, said, and written.
Here is Scott Yenor’s excellent article, which you can also read at City Journal HERE: