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| It's all Pride rainbows. Some will tell you that the administrators so present at today's event did not attend IVC's first ever Pride in 2018 when this photo was taken. Yes, that's Rebel Girl in green on the left, with the big chip on her shoulder. |
LAST year during August FLEXweek, IVC denizens who showed up to the President's Welcome were treated to information about the dangers of texting while driving and advised how they too could sign up for the services offered by the Automobile Club of America, aka Triple A, a favorite organization of Rebel Girl who still can't change a tire on her own but not what she, or many others expected from FLEX week. You can read all about last year here: Flex Week Follies.
This year was a very different story.
Gone was the usual triumphal braggadocio. In its place, the college president offered personal testimony about how he understood his place of privilege and shared his own story of encountering diversity and that of his wife. This was followed by two noted equity in education activists - The Campaign for College Opportunity's Audrey Dow and USC's Dr. Shaun Harper - who notably did not ask us to sign up for Triple A insurance plans but instead challenged us to do better. They were great. Unsparing. Direct. Pie charts. Data. They called out institutional racism and the white supremacy and the failure of our educational leader to address it. It's not enough to hang well-intentioned banners, Mr. President. Funny too.
Some say this is Glenn's doing.
Many claim it is the influence of the new chancellor.
After all, so many of us have seen what Glenn's priorities have been for nearly two decades. Equity assessment that looks at how institutions perpetuate racism and sexism instead of combat it have never ranked this high before. For example, just take a look at the college website page for DACA students which continues to languish. We are beginning to lose a generation of students here who are too afraid to enroll at community college once they graduate high school, so worried are they that doing so will risk themselves, their families.
So what has changed? And why? You tell us.
11 comments:
He seemed to be making an effort in the right direction.
What happened to Glenn was last year and people pressuring him (and his people) to be accountable.
Perhaps Glenn needs to study Steps 8 & 9. Otherwise this is, as so often with him, about him AND HIS.
But yes, two good days of FLEX activities. But it will take a lot more to change an entrenched, arrogant culture.
Yes, quite a shift in tone and content. But what will actually change?
This from the guy who sent out a special memo warning people they better not be caught watching the Obama inaugural unless they had permission from their supervisor!
Please. This is not genuine. This is Glenn appeasing his boss. There’s no way his heart is in this.
Real oversight (and real leadership) is needed.
Someone PLEASE review the actions taken last year and this summer that are in direct opposition to the spirit of diversity and inclusivity promoted at the Chancellor's and the IVC sessions: the revision of the AA/As degrees to the detriment of courses that directly cover these subjects; the approval of homogeneous hiring cmtes.; the cancellation of and lack of support for courses that address diversity; the muffling and public disparagement of critics of administration; etc. etc.
Nobody believes Glen is actually being genuine or has changed, right? We know it’s just a show. To get on good side of new boss and board. He’s gotten good at this act over the years.
Here's Glenn's response to request to watch the Obama inaugural (I remember it well!). I wonder what the make-up of the presidential executive was when they made this decision.... And remember, this was the college which placed two televisions outside the student center on the day the OJ Simpson verdict was announced so students could watch the proceedings. Not a pretty sight.
https://dissenttheblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/get-your-ball-gown-on.html
Where can we access former IVC equity plans/reports?
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