Letter to the Editor: What does diversity training have to do with diversity?

May 9, 2021 · Letters to the Editor · Comments Off

To the editor: We call it Diversity Training, but it is not. It has nothing to do with Diversity (whatever that is) and everything to do with Dogma and Doctrine. It is ‘training’ in the same way China’s Red Guard provided ‘re-education’. Consumed by the same poisonous belief which drives every Holocaust, that ‘badness’ is … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: What does diversity training have to do with diversity?”

Letter to the Editor: Don’t conflate diversity training with diversity

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To the editor: Alexander Riley conflates diversity training, which I don’t agree with, with diversity. He seems to think that the only people who have anything to contribute to higher education are whites and that minorities only contribution is their skin color. It seems anathema to him that minorities can contribute and have contributed more … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Don’t conflate diversity training with diversity”

Letter to the Editor: The “new normal” of learning

May 4, 2021 · Letters to the Editor · Comments Off

To the editor: In the midst of a global health crisis, suffering, fear and anxiety are to be expected. This should not surprise anyone. In fact, these have always been part of life. The anticipation of one’s mortality at different times—especially now—is unavoidable. Megan Zogby’s latest “Did You Know? Students Still Struggling with Mental Health?” … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: The “new normal” of learning”

Letter to the Editor: Conflicts of interest in university governance

Apr 22, 2021 · Letters to the Editor · Comments Off

To the editor: “A Chancellor Search Tainted with Suspicion and Shrouded in Secrecy” is a great example of political corruption in higher education—as viewed from the outside. Politically connected players have always used their advantages to leverage even more benefits when they can get away with it. No wonder this looks like corruption to faculty … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Conflicts of interest in university governance”

Letter to the Editor: What makes a good teacher?

Apr 20, 2021 · Letters to the Editor · Comments Off

To the editor: Prof. Lucien Ellington’s refrain that kids taught by badly-trained teachers don’t learn their 3 Rs is as old as public education in the USA, yet neither he nor any others of his outlook have explained the coincidental rise in literacy rates since 1800. In some respects, literacy education defies what happens in … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: What makes a good teacher?”

Letter to the Editor: Is anything not systemic racism?

Apr 13, 2021 · Letters to the Editor · Comments Off

To the editor: Sociology is supposed to be a science but, alas, large chunks of it have migrated to activism. N.C. State Sociologist Michael Schwalbe’s article attacking cigarette companies for marketing “mentholated tobacco products to the Black community” is an example. Selective marketing apparently amounts to “institutional racism,” of which we now have an epidemic … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Is anything not systemic racism?”