Today, more than 80 college and university leaders have signed onto a statement co-authored by Presidents Biddy Martin of Amherst College and Michael S. Roth of Wesleyan University urging the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to abandon its announced civil rights investigation into Princeton University. Martin and Roth defend Princeton’s right–and the right of all “individuals, families, communities, businesses, corporations, and educational institutions”–to examine the country’s “legacies of slavery and racial oppression” and their own roles in perpetuating these legacies, past and present. They criticize the DOE for "using our country’s resources to investigate an institution that is committed to becoming more inclusive by reckoning with the impact in the present of our shared legacies of racism….
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/amherst-wesleyan-presidents-lead-coalition-of-higher-ed-leaders-in-urging-us-department-of-education-to-abandon-civil-rights-investigation-of-princeton-university-301137882.html
I think that the writers and signatories of this statement misunderstand the purpose behind the US Dept. of Education’s investigation. In short, this statement plays right into the hands of those prompting the investigation.
Sometimes EQ is more important than IQ.
“EQ” = emotional intelligence. Similar to common sense.