Are you somehow of the camp that being a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement is a pejorative???
He’s going to be one guest lecturer among three for a class at the Div school. I wish him, his fellow lecturers and the students well.
Bravo Yale Div. Keep bringing in interesting folks to educate your students.
^^^ I have no disdain for the man personally…don’t know him. However, he in no way should be teaching at a college like Yale. Way below their standards imo. His only teaching experience is as a middle school math teacher from 2007-2009…not quite the same level as the professors teaching at Yale such as Nobel laureates.
He’s not teaching at the college. He’s one among 3 lecturers speaking on their leadership experience at the Div school for a 2 day leadership seminar.
The other two guest lecturers seem to share Mr. McKesson’s prominence in current, community activism/leadership. They just happen to be Yale Div alums and McKesson isn’t.
Oh poor Yale!
And your “not quite the same level as professors” – is a straw man argument. How many lauretes does Yale have? You’re damning about 98% of their faculty and lecturers.
This ONE CREDIT course is one of three 12-hour courses will take place over an intensive two-day class period on leadership, rather than spanning the course of the semester.
I’m not ready to sound the alarm so we have to seal ourselves into our fall out shelters. Honestly, the anti-BlackLivesMatter neo-racist tone of faux news is disgusting to me.
Hey to each his own. If you’re interested in taking the class so be it. Not damning the 98%…quite the opposite…he would be by far the LEAST qualified of anybody at Yale. That’s partly the point.
This is the first time in my memory that anybody has known or cared about who was speaking or teaching at the Yale Divinity School. Most Yalies barely know that there is a Yale Divinity School.
But if you’re a fox news staffer wanting click bait – this is right up your alley
It’s very common for universities to create small, specialized programs that feature instructors who do not have traditional academic backgrounds when they can bring unique experiences or perspectives. Happens all the time in business and the arts.
Yale’s residential college seminars also frequently feature lecturers who are not professors but have a variety of different backgrounds and experiences.
I think it’s pretty elitist to think that only Ph.D.s have something worthwhile to say, particularly in this sort of focused, short-term, colloquium.
I think most Yale undergraduates know there is a Yale Divinity School. Somewhere. I had no idea where it was; I had to look it up on a map. Undergraduates will be safe from this lecturer, whether they should be or not.
I am sure my DD has no clue where the Divinity School is. Not to disparage it, she just has no need to know. If you want to know how Yale feels about bringing in and supporting alternative points of view, go back and listen to the Yale \President’s speech to the incoming Class of 2018 (who are sophomores now). It is right on point.