Just a quick followup on the Academe Today snippet on recruiting more men
to college campuses.
What really threw me for a loop wasn't so much the policy goal, but the
old-fashioned quasi-racist language describing it. After all, the same
objective could be just as easily motivated from a diversity perspective
(sincerely or otherwise.) Last I heard, the human population is still
evenly divided by gender (to 4 significant figures or so); thus,
significant imbalances make the college experience not representative of
the lifelong citizenship we are have on the earth - case closed.
The only explanation that I can imagine for this arcane language is that
the culture of practitioners who created/espouse this position are either
out of the loop or so self-confident that they feel they shove this idea
down our throats no matter how they phrase it . . . . !?!??
I've got an idea. Let's get hold of these folks and get them to champion
instead doubling all academic budgets. If they really can shove
heavy-duty social engineering down our throats, they should find budget
politics to be child's play!! . . . . .
Sighs and grumbles between the coughs!
Peace, Edouard :-)
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