Jim Crow in the Northern Chicago Burbs
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the board members have thought it through carefully and — in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion — are going to give segregation a shot again. Don’t worry, though — this time it’ll be good. These are not your old, nasty, Fifties “Jim Crow” segregated classes, mind you. No, these are refined, sensitively modern “Affinity Classes,” an idea first tried in the San Francisco Bay Area’s public schools (the true hallmark of a quality educational idea). They are purely voluntary and “designed to address the achievement gap by making students feel more comfortable in class.” As one administrator puts it, “A lot of times within our education system, black students are expected to conform to a white standard. . . . In our spaces, you don’t have to shed one ounce of yourself because everything about our space is rooted in blackness.”
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Putting them in more comfortable surroundings without those pesky white kids will sure make for a smooth and easy transition into the world post graduation.
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@Copper said in Jim Crow in the Northern Chicago Burbs:
Kind of like Historically Black Colleges and Universities
JIndal eventually became a fuck up, but one thing he tried to do and got absolutely steam-rolled, was to shut down some of the HBC's and combine them into other universities.
He was going to leave Southern in Baton Rouge, but close Grambling and combine it with ULM and close SUNO and combine it with UNO. That would put Grambling into the University of Louisiana system and SUNO into the LSU system. He was also going to close Southern in Shreveport and combine it with LSUS.
There are about 9000 students at ULM + 5000 Grambling students, making a student population of 14,000. It is 41 miles between campuses. Alternatively...It is only about 5 miles between Louisiana Tech and Grambling. But ULM and Grambling have the most overlap in programs. ULM is known for healthcare and teachers.
Southern Shreveport has about 2500 students, LSUS has about 9000 students. LSUS is about 2/3's graduate students...There was some talk about rolling LaTech into the LSU system because of all the engineering programs at LSU main campus. La Tech has 11,000 students. That would create a bi-campus university with 22,500 students.
Southern New Orleans has about 1000 students. UNO has about 8500 students. The combined campus would be 9500 students.
Ok...So, two universities in North Louisiana, one of 14,000 students, one of 22,500 students. One university in New Orleans, 9500 students. Three campuses closed with the resulting savings of not having to keep up grounds and buildings, along with less clerical and administrative staff and a concentration of professors.
I thought it was a good idea. By the reaction in the black community, you would have thought he was proposing to rape the Virgin Mary on the steps of the State Capitol.
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Thanks, Jolly. Interesting summation. I was not aware of campus' sizes nor all of the universities.
So. . . nothing changed? And, does the governor have that much power in statute to make such changes against public opinion, if he wants? Where was the legislature in this consolidation attempt, and where were the boards? Hope I'm not missing too much of the big picture, but this kind of stuff really interests me.
