Indigenizing the University: When Reason is Afraid to Speak with Prof. Frances Widdowson

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"Appointing scholars to academic positions according to sex, race, ethnicity, or disability status is a violation of the merit principle, the principle that academic decisions should be made on academic grounds only. Excluding a significant proportion of qualified candidates cannot be a sound way to build an excellent faculty. As well, because appointing scholars on such grounds is wrongfully discriminatory, making such appointments cannot be a sound way to create a fair and equitable university.

Academic goals can be better realized by hiring the best scholars from within wide applicant pools."

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Indie Media Eastcoast4 weeks ago (edited)

there's also the term "africanization'..... https://www.amren.com/features/2015/07/an-african-planet/ .. Twitter suspended my account last year - largely after I was attacked by " decolonizers " who kept calling me a racist white supremicist settler.. I think Frances is right.. don't ignore the land acknowledgements.. they're far from being innocuous.. its about land rights and land claims and in BC its a very key issue in my opinion... I worked for some lawyers who did Treaty work in Gastown when I was younger.. do not ignore this stuff folks.. ☨ Resurrection Europa 🍁 ‏ @WolfishHead Over 3000 private properties in Canada might be handed over to American Indian tribes, and the property owners are being kept in the dark about it. Imagine losing your house and land out of the blue. Informing them could "frustrate progress": "if the landowners were informed that they live within the claim area, “there is a real possibility that many of them will seek to participate in this proceeding.” That, Justice Fisher said, could “frustrate” the progress of the case." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bc-landowners-not-being-told-property-could-go-to-first-nation/