“The University of Missouri system plans to begin several initiatives in the next 90 days that is says are aimed at improving the racial atmosphere on its four campuses and cultivating diversity and inclusion at the schools.” …
Including a “The system’s first chief diversity, inclusion and equity officer.”
One of the planned changes is;
“— Mandatory diversity, inclusion and equity training for all faculty, staff and future incoming students.”
Do they currently have none for each of those groups, or is it just optional?
@JustOneDad I believe faculty and staff have to go through some sort of training similar to that, but they’re planning on mandatory training for students and will probably vamp it up more than what they currently have for staff.
And, of course, they’re having to say stuff like this for posterity’s sake. After all that’s gone on here, if they didn’t mention mandatory training then people would have a field day over it.
The bottom line is that MU will lose good quality students through transfers and potential students who will go elsewhere. MU has been harmed and tarnished by a very small minority. I would not consider sending a child of mine there.
I sincerely hope they won’t be “vamping it up” for the training.
The situation has not hit bottom yet. You would have to be crazy to consider Missouri if you’re a high school senior applying to colleges for next year. Totally crazy.
About a month ago, I got a letter from Mizzou offering me some “diversity scholarship” worth $14,000 a year (basically an OOS tuition waiver). The letter pretty much said the university wants to increase the number of minority students that attend (I’m black btw). After all of the recent chaos that has gone on at Mizzou, I’m not even considering applying there anymore.
I think the most interesting part about all of this is that we’re just the first school (and most vocal) to have large protests. We’re certainly not the only school with problems and the fact that there are many other colleges who are now holding protests and demanding the resignation of their deans/presidents (Claremont McKenna, for instance) shows that this isn’t some anomaly that we’re going through, whether you agree with the protests or not, it’s happening elsewhere.
I certainly wouldn’t say “Yeah, people should totally come here” now, I would never try to persuade someone to come here while we’re going through this, but Mizzou isn’t an inherently bad place.
It’s likely that out-of-state applications will drop. I’m not sure why someone would pay out-of-state tuition jump into this situation.
On the other hand, I doubt that in-state admissions will change by much. Missouri benefits from being the 800 pound gorilla within a relatively small state. This isn’t like Texas, California or Florida, where you’ve got multiple, public, Research I schools to choose from.