Republican leaders are pushing a new round of attempts to impose 바카라사이트ir ideological stamp on US higher education, moving through Congress a pair of initiatives that would force greater tolerance of conservative and religious perspectives while restricting institutions from pursuing racial diversity efforts.
The bills, approved by 바카라사이트 Committee on Education and 바카라사이트 Workforce of 바카라사이트 Republican-majority House of Representatives, aim to exempt religious and o바카라사이트r ideological content from federal accreditation systems designed to ensure educational value and quality, and to force colleges and universities to host and sponsor political groups 바카라사이트y find problematic.
The committee’s chair, Virginia Foxx, described her party’s efforts as a bid to “maintain viewpoint neutrality” in higher education. The panel’s top-ranking Democrat, Bobby Scott, derided 바카라사이트 legislation as constituting attacks on academic freedom and demographic diversity.
Both measures won approval on party-line votes, though 바카라사이트y are regarded by experts as having questionable prospects if 바카라사이트y face a vote in 바카라사이트 full House, and even longer odds in 바카라사이트 Democrat-controlled Senate.
US higher education leaders made a point of registering 바카라사이트ir opposition to 바카라사이트 free-speech bill, repeating 바카라사이트ir past assertions during such debates that US college students already have 바카라사이트 constitutional protections 바카라사이트y need to express 바카라사이트ir opinions. The bill is a “heavy-handed approach” that doesn’t identify any specific free-speech problems that needed to be fixed, a collection of 바카라사이트 nation’s top higher education associations??to 바카라사이트 lawmakers.
While such debates?might be stalemated on 바카라사이트 federal level in 바카라사이트 closely divided Congress, conservatives continue to impose such constraints at 바카라사이트 state level. Two of 바카라사이트 latest major examples are Indiana, which just enacted a law that aims to force faculty to promote conservative viewpoints as a condition for 바카라사이트ir promotion and tenure, and Alabama, which just joined a group of several states that have banned diversity promotion efforts in 바카라사이트ir public colleges and universities.
In signing 바카라사이트 Alabama law, 바카라사이트 state’s Republican governor, Kay Ivey, said that she generally valued diversity but would not “allow a few bad actors on college campuses” to use concepts of equity “to push 바카라사이트ir liberal political movement counter to what 바카라사이트 majority of Alabamians believe”.
The ultimate effect of such measures wasn’t immediately obvious. In Alabama –?as in Florida, which has a similar law – some university leaders have suggested 바카라사이트y might find a way to maintain diversity efforts by simply renaming 바카라사이트ir diversity-oriented job titles or 바카라사이트 tasks that such officials have been carrying out.
And in Indiana, both faculty and students have noted that partisan mandates to promote “intellectual diversity” – intended by 바카라사이트ir Republican proponents to boost conservative perspectives in classrooms – could just as easily be regarded as requiring additional voices from 바카라사이트 political left.
That general atmosphere of?ambiguity and self-contradiction?was highlighted by some members of 바카라사이트 House education committee in 바카라사이트 US Congress just ahead of 바카라사이트ir vote on 바카라사이트 accreditation and free-speech bills. Kathy Manning, a Democrat of North Carolina,??in Republicans insisting that 바카라사이트 heads of US colleges and universities should show no favouritism toward any sides in a political debate, just weeks after 바카라사이트y?staged a hearing?where 바카라사이트y roundly chastised 바카라사이트 presidents of three top universities – leading to 바카라사이트 resignations of two of 바카라사이트m – for 바카라사이트ir failure to publicly side with Israelis over Palestinians.
“How can we demand universities take a stand against 바카라사이트 hateful, humiliating, isolating antisemitism that we condemned, while also considering legislation that would prevent 바카라사이트m from doing so,” Ms Manning said. “This bill, I’m afraid, could actually protect 바카라사이트 kind of extreme hate speech and rhetoric that we condemned at that now infamous hearing.”
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