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"Residence Life" Movement Finally Attracts Attention
Political Correctness; Posted on: 2008-05-14
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Students at the University of Delaware undergo "the treatment" on race,
economics, and the environment.
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By George Leef
Very few people knew anything about the growing “Residence Life” movement
on
college campuses prior to the revelations about the program at the
University
of Delaware last year. In brief, students there were required to
participate
in group and individual discussion sessions outside of regular classes.
The
sessions were led by Resident Assistants who had been through an intensive
training program and the subject matter consisted of extremely tendentious
theories -- often presented, however, as unquestionable truth -- about
race,
economics, the environment, and so forth.
This whole program (referred to by the university as “the treatment”) was
designed by Student Affairs personnel, not faculty members. Its objective
– to
get students to accept a set of “politically correct” beliefs. Students
who
disagreed were singled out for criticism.
Delaware’s Res Life program is part of a nationwide project to turn
residence
halls into new educational centers on campus, not just places where
students
sleep and do their coursework. Simultaneously, it turns student affairs
employees from lowly administrators into very influential educators with
their
own agenda and curriculum.
Sup****ted by the likes of the Ford Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts
and
organized through the American College Personnel Association, the Res Life
movement envisions itself as a force for the transformation of the
American
campus. The movement began in the early 1990s and has been rapidly growing
ever since.
Since the University of Delaware story broke, the National Association of
Scholars has been diligently investigating to learn more about the
“Residence
Life” movement. In a series of re****ts, Dr. Thomas Wood has unearthed a
great
amount of troubling information. The Res Life movement, Wood shows, is a
malignant cancer that is spreading across America’s colleges and
universities.
It’s an effort to im****t a new sort of “transformative education” into the
curriculum, one that is about indoctrination rather than the search for
truth
and to which all students would be subjected.
The Res Life program at the University of Michigan is among the oldest and
best established. Wood’s research into it reveals much about the goals and
methods of the movement.
One of the foremost goals of Res Life, Wood writes, is to help preserve
affirmative action programs. Despite Justice O’Connor’s statement in
Grutter
v. Bollinger that universities may use racial preferences in admissions to
obtain the “educational benefits” that supposedly flow from “diversity,”
affirmative action proponents know that this is a slender reed. Grutter
was
only a 5-4 decision and the Court simply took the University of Michigan’s
word for it that those benefits exist. In fact, there is evidence that the
attempt to sculpt a “diverse” student body is educationally detrimental.
Therefore, the defenders of racial preferences want to have an alternate
justification and they think that Res Life can provide it. How? Because
the
discussion sessions that are integral to Res Life programs require racial
diversity. A key idea behind Res Life is that socio-economic progress can
be
made when individuals from different groups in society have to confront
each
other. Obviously, if the student body doesn’t have enough members of
minority
groups, these “intergroup dialogues” won’t be possible.
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