Which of These Persons at UVa Oversees the Educational Development of the Rest?
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by James C. Sherlock
In order to illustrate the truly insulting nature of the DEI program at the University of Virginia, I offer the following quiz.
See if you can pick out the person pictured who:
directs a range of educational programming focused on educational development for staff, faculty and students.
Nana Last, Professor of ArchitectureIra C. Harris, Professor, McIntyre School of Commerce
Sankaran Venkataraman, Professor, Darden School of BusinessSandhya Dwarkadas, Professor and Chair Department of Computer ScienceTisha Hayes, Professor of Education
Trinh Thuan, Professor Emeritus, Department of AstronomyKelsey Johnson Professor of AstronomyHaibo Dong Professor Aerospace EngineeringSly Mata, Director of Diversity Education, Division for DEINicole Thorne Jenkins, Dean, McIntyre School of CommerceDevin K. Harris, Professor of EngineeringMool C. Gupta, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer EngineeringTomonari Furukawa, Professor of EngineeringAllan Tsung M.D., Professor and Chair Department of Surgery, Medical SchoolSallie Keller, Professor of Data ScienceHarsha Chelliah, Professor School of Engineering
Bottom line. Good guess.
There is every evidence that Mr. Mata is a fine man. His biography is inspiring.
But the people pictured above who are not Mr. Mata excelled and earned their plaudits and appointments before there was a UVa Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Even before James Ryan was President.
It must be a source of embarrassment to the University faculty, and it certainly is to alumni, that Mr. Ryan, panicked by national events in 2020, has parachuted in people to oversee faculty, staff and student progressive political correctness and their “educational development” and to police their speech.
To teach these extraordinary people how to be “sensitive” to gender and race issues.
These very distinguished people (read at the link) earned what they have. It is pretty clear they already know how to teach, research and lead.
They don’t deserve to be “overseen” by political commissars. But most who don’t agree with the policy are controlled by specific and credible threats to their careers.
Perhaps that will convince Northern Virginians that the “too many Asians” changes to the admissions criteria at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology were as counterproductive as they seemed to most of the rest of us at the time.