The racist policies of Wilfrid Laurier University continue unabated. Of course it’s all spun in a positive, progressive manner but others beg to disagree:
Reserving academic positions for members of specific racial, ethnic, cultural or other groups is a violation of the merit principle, the principle that academic decisions should be made on academic grounds only. By requiring candidates for academic appointments to possess certain nonacademic characteristics, Wilfrid Laurier will disadvantage promising scholars for no reason related to their academic accomplishments, abilities or promise. Declining to consider on their academic merits all interested and qualified scholars cannot be a sound way to build an excellent faculty.
Taking group membership into account when hiring can have the effect of harming individual scholars because others may see them in stereotypical ways and wrongly undervalue their work. In addition, because scholars want to be valued for the quality of their research, their teaching, and their contributions to intellectual life rather than for their racial or other identity, having them specify their colour or heritage forces them to suppress their dignity or forgo applying. Finally, recruitment based on a non-academic criterion can undermine respect for the ideal of dispassionate inquiry, as summoning people by race or heritage tends to confuse scholarship with advocacy and to create consensus around dogma.
Back in the day it was Waterloo Lutheran University. Now they are racists who hate white people. Alberta used to have a couple Lutheran schools Augustana in Camrose and Concordia in Edmonton. Now they are Godless schools that likely hate white people too.
It was still Lutheran when my oldest brother started up the street UW. It had changed to Laurier by the time I started at UW 7 years later. I assume they chose Laurier to save on signage and stationary replacement costs.
I’m a Camrose Lutheran College alumnus and I can fill in some of the blanks in its story.
It embarked on an expansion soon after I finished my undergrad year, something which prompted me to stop donating to it as I foresaw that it would destroy the environment which had appealed to me while I was there.
In the early 1980s, when it seemed that everyone and his dog could call themselves a university, CLC did the same thing and became Augustana University College. It had to change certain ways of doing business because it had to conform to provincial government legislation. (People have this idea that universities grant degrees. That’s not true. It’s the government that actually does, but it’s the institutions that do so on its behalf.)
As I predicted a few years earlier, the college in Camrose ran aground and found itself short of money. Eventually, it was sold for the token dollar to the University of Alberta–at least that’s what I read. (Certain Augustana people I spoke with several years later denied the story.)
What used to be Camrose Lutheran College is now a part of the U of A and the Lutheran church has very little to do with it any more. If I recall correctly, CLC began as an institution more like a senior high school as, when I was there, a number of people were studying Grade 12. It expanded its offerings to include university transfer programs (in some disciplines, such as education, up to the sophomore year), but, in order to do so, it needed government support.
From what I understand, Waterloo Lutheran University had a similar story and, by getting government funding, it had to reduce its church affiliation if not erase it entirely.
I’m not familiar with Concordia’s story as its affiliation was with a different Lutheran synod.
Re: “I’m not familiar with Concordia’s story as its affiliation was with a different Lutheran synod.”
Concordia began as Sir George Williams University and was started by the YMCA and only completely severed ties with that organization in the late 1960’s. It’s focus for much of its time was adult continuing education. I’m not sure when it became Concordia – likely the 1970’s.
https://www.concordia.ca/offices/archives/stories/sgw.html#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20Sir%20George%20Williams%20University%20began,its%20members%20and%20to%20serve%20the%20Montreal%20community.
Actually, I was referring to Concordia College here in Edmonton, not the university in Montreal. I know that it had a Lutheran affiliation because an undergrad classmate of mine, a fellow Lutheran, told me that he spent his freshman year there.
“Concordia College here in Edmonton”
It’s recent name has been Concordia University of Edmonton. It was Missouri Synod who normally don’t spend all their recreational and working hours promoting buggery. They dropped their church affiliation in 2016 during the tyranny of the communist jackal Red Rachel Notley. She had threatened to defund religious elementary and high schools. I wonder if she didn’t send a message to Concordia.
I didn’t know that. I haven’t paid much attention to local news since I stopped reading The Edmonton Journal‘s website after it supported Wretched Rachel.
The threat to defund religious schools related their refusal to teach buggery as normal.
BA … you and I have discussed the degenerate Lutheran Church before … but NOW the Gospel has finally been binned …
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/12/us/first-transgender-lutheran-bishop-megan-rohrer-trnd/index.html
I am a Lutheran by Baptism. A fact which embarrasses me now
It makes me think that it’s cast aside Luther’s Catechism as well.
Unfortunately, the Lutheran church here in Canada isn’t far from it, though the degree to which it’s gone off the rails appears to vary between synods.
That’s one reason I haven’t attended services for a number of years. I don’t need to got to church to be scolded or humiliated for my political beliefs when I can get it free of charge just about anywhere else.
I can only assume the New transgendered Lutheran Bishop ‘believes’ that Christ was a very wise man, who was flawed, and said some things that he didn’t really mean … so we highly evolved 21st century woke Christians … will set The Jesus straight.
I’m sure that will get worked into the Catechism…
And there will be no more ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ in Sunday School … just neuters awaiting their sex assignment
Several years ago, I skimmed through an article about a certain Lutheran synod bishop after her appointment to the position. I noticed an emphasis on things such as “justice” and “aboriginal rights”.
I wasn’t surprised at that. I knew her when she was an undergrad. Her father was a clergyman who leaned to the far left.
BA … SMH … ♂️
Interesting that HE not only thinks he’s female, but plural females. His desired pronouns are they/them. Not only is this guy apostate, he’s nuts.
Until two years ago my husband and I lived in NY state for 30 years and I worked for 13 years as was music director in an ELCA parish in Western NY. We actually heard the Gospel there every Sunday. Likewise some years earlier when I worked in another ELCA in the area, right on the border. There are still some good individual parishes spread across the U.S., but why so many Lutherans just sit back and let their bishops lead them astray is both baffling and disturbing to me.
It starts in seminary.
I used to be friends with someone who was studying for the ministry and I attended his graduation banquet. During the proceedings, I overheard some of the conversations between various people, and one of them boasted about how his thesis was on “liberation theology”. Considering how enthusiastically he made his comment, I surmised that he was in favour of it.
Those same students often go on to becoming ordained, and, thereby, begin infesting congregations with such ideologies.
Then there are internal theological politics. The synod I was affiliated with, which was fairly conservative, merged with one more progressive. It was the thinking of the latter that eventually took over and I no longer recognize the organization I once knew.
As a white male, why would you agree to pay taxes at this point?
The government has bigger guns than I do, and more of them. They also seem very willing to use them on people who do not pay into the protection racket they are running.
Well there’s all the applicable e-mail addresses to include SDA reader concerns as well 🙂
I am kind of on board with this.
Let them mess with the minds of minorities for a change, white kids have had enough of their useless social degrees, their communist professors, their murder of both free thinking and free speech and their disgusting racist ideologies.
The Canadian media told me that there is institutionalized racism at Canadian universities, and they were right!
So smart people will find something more productive to do with their time than wasting it in academia.
I sum up my attitude with a “FFS!!”
I think the expression is “numerus clausus.” European Jews know it very, very well.
scholars want to be valued for the quality of their research, their teaching, and their contributions to intellectual life rather than for their racial or other identity
Assumes facts not in evidence.
lol! Such a good point!
My understanding of Sir Wilfred Laurier University is that it is “less than special” university – the curriculum is designed for the “special eds”.
Let’s put it this way: it’s a second-tier institution.
If a bIack man is waiting to get surgery to have a brain tumour removed; who do you think he wouId want to perform the surgery?
1. The most skiIIed person with a scaIpeI and highest rate of success: or,
2. The guy who Iooks just Iike him.
In the logic used by SJWs, the second implies the first, but not necessarily the other way around.
I’ve mentioned this sort of thing several times over the years I’ve been on SDA. The advertisements for most university faculty positions I applied to after I quit teaching at Armpit College implied that white, Christian, heterosexual men need not apply.
That attitude created the mess that the system now finds itself in. Let it deal with it.
So basically they’re copying the RCMP.
That was my thought exactly Buddy ,then they wonder why the incompetence runs rampant
But, no, we are not heading towards where South Africa is now. All those turd worlders that uniformly fail at civilization should be given preference over the civilized.
Diversity isn’t about white genocide either.
Soon they will be struggling for enrollment. Just like all the employers struggling to find workers.
I desperately need a job, but will not apply to anything that uses the words progressive, empowering, or affirmative action. Why would i want to work (or study) somewhere that starts me at a disadvantage based purely on the color of my skin? That is true racism
Read Lindsay Shepherd’s book Diversity & Inclusion as she was the trigger for all this wokeness to leak out like puss out of an open sore.l The faculty are just pathetic but do very well monetarily with Deborah MacLatchy, the Queen Bee, pulling down $350,000. My son went to UW but luckily finished his degree before all this pestilence began.
There is a university here that hired most instructors from the enriching part of the population.
It’s not race, they work cheap.
That way the white thrash that runs the university can have more money for themselves.
Re: “The initiative will further Laurier’s Indigenization strategy, which will be developed by the university’s incoming associate vice-president: Indigenous initiatives, Darren Thomas, who begins his role in July. ”
and:
“We are excited to lift up Indigenous teaching and research at the university,” said Melissa Ireland, director and interim senior advisor of Indigenous initiatives at Laurier. ”
Look no further as to why the cost of university tuition is skyrocketing – one useless parasite after another feeding off the system. Even Queen’s University business school is promoting this nonsense. I even recently received an e-mail from that institution crowing that they were in the top five in the world. Very impressive until I read that was in “sustainability”. No mention of academic excellence.
As I mentioned a few days ago on another thread, I came across the salary list for some of the faculty at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Two people I knew from my grad student days are professors there.
Back then, one was getting around a quarter million a year and the other about $100,000 less. The latter got her job because someone decided that they needed more “women and visible minorities” and she, being from China, was a cinch for the position.
There’s no blinkin’ way that a university professor is worth that kind of money. My late father worked as a machinist. With only a journeyman’s certificate and decades of experience in his trade, he put in a lot of overtime and managed to earn in the low 6 figures by the time he retired nearly 15 years ago.
So who’s the maker and who’s the taker?
I’m going with the machinist … and not the working in RED China
So we have the token candidates, no respect, unless hey are all tokens – a la Trudeau’s cabinet. I feel lawsuits nmight be in the coming. Certainly I would not recommend Wilfred Laurier establishment as a place for students.
I wonder how long the “product” will take to realize they are unsellable?
Would you or any sane employer high a graduate of this cesspool?
Who are the “customers”?
The rich white parents trying to get their housepet out of their lives?
The clueless student,who wants to check the box;”University Education”?
What do they imagine a School with such “Policies” is selling?
Unfortunately, the HR department of many employers is a product of these institutions.
If they’re not hiring based on their ideals, they’re hiring based on the tax credit they receive.
So essentially it’s government sponsored racism
And those personnel department munchkins are the ones who decide whether one gets an interview based on the buzzwords one puts in one’s résumé and how well one conforms to the employability “standards”, as I mentioned:
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/05/18/white-men-need-not-apply/#comment-1446576
The fact that none of them could tell the difference between a diode and a globe valve is irrelevant.
When I was an undergrad, most of my professors were worthy of admiration and respect. They worked in or with industry, so they often knew what they were talking about. At the same time, they conducted themselves as professionals and expected the same from us.
Maybe it was an illusion. A few years after I finished my B. Sc., I was a grad student and I got stuck with being the token representative in the department faculty meetings. My vision of engineering professors being the elite of my profession was quickly destroyed.
The supervisor for my last two degrees turned out to be a professional freeloader. He claimed he would investigate anything, so long as someone else paid for it.
The HR ladies at work assured me that although they screened applicants according to a diversity quota they were actually hiring on merit alone because…wait for it,……diversity is merit.
I’ve found that personnel department thingies aren’t all that bright and aren’t really connected with the real world.
A few months after I quit my teaching position at Armpit College, I had a meeting (more like an introductory interview) with a local software company.
It was publicly traded at the time and I took a look at its annual report. I noticed that it had lost money the previous year, so in my session with what’s-her-name, I asked about it. If nothing else, I wanted to show that I knew a little about the outfit and what its situation was.
She was taken aback that I should have the audacity to even raise the issue. I wasn’t surprised when I received a PFO (as in, “please **** off”) response.
My logic was this. I was an investor and I might have considered buying the company’s stock. Had I taken the job, I would have also put my income and financial well-being on the line. I wanted a return on my risk and my investment and I wasn’t about to buy a pig in a poke. Caveat emptor and all that.
Ah, but that’s not how personnel departments think. She probably saw that as a lack of commitment and that I wouldn’t want to work long hours for no guarantee of success. And she would have been right. I had worked for a number of similar outfits in the past, worked lots of unpaid overtime only to become highly stressed and, inevitably, unemployed. Most of those employers had the attitude, “Gee, thanks for all your efforts, but you’re still going to get a kick in the pants, you poor dumb sucker.”
That’s one reason I never got a job after I quit Armpit College. I was too old and too experienced to blindly walk into a potential sinkhole. She never saw me as a potential investor or someone who might want to exercise some caution.
A year or so later, I tried again but used a different tactic. This time I actually spoke with some managers, snotty kids young enough to be my children. Worse yet, they openly insulted me because I didn’t fit their idea of what they might have been looking for.
Oh, well, their loss…..
@B A D R
So what you are saying is that you’re out to pasture now.