As Texas bans diversity and equity offices at public colleges, Rice University's inclusion efforts march on

This is certainly an enlightening read.

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At Rice, Luziris Pineda Turi, an associate vice provost of DEI, helps teach a required, five-week series for freshmen called "critical dialogues on diversity."

It's an introductory course intended to teach students how to have conversations rather than debate about diversity. Some sessions focus on how identity is a lens through which to view the world. Another talks about how seemingly small comments about someone's race, gender or socioeconomic class can make them less comfortable sharing their perspectives or lived experiences. Students also learn how to respond when they witness racist or homophobic comments.

The university made the series mandatory in 2021. But this year, Turi said, they added an educational open house to clarify and explain the program's intent given the current national rhetoric around diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Catherine Clack, an associate vice provost of DEI and director of the multicultural center, said that when people claim that DEI initiatives are divisive or indoctrinating students, they are trying to disenfranchise underrepresented groups for the sake of upholding existing political and economic power.
"The actions in Texas are rooted soundly rooted, deeply ingrained in white supremacy," she said.
Still, linking the opposition to DEI offices to white supremacy is exactly the kind of comment that critics latch onto as evidence that diversity and inclusion work equates to liberal indoctrination.

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Two years ago, Rice announced that all students must take a course in an area called "analyzing diversity" as a way to infuse more conversations about diversity into the curriculum. These courses prepare students to evaluate differences and address inequities.

Last fall, 28% of undergraduate students at Rice were white, a large decline from 16 years ago when white undergraduate enrollment was 52% Meanwhile last fall, 30% of undergraduates were Asian and 15% were Hispanic. Black undergraduate enrollment was 8%.

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I would be interested in knowing from anyone who is associated with Rice or has a child who went there if this is representative of the "temperature" on campus or just the rot that someone there is doing. We all know that hetero White males, especially if they practice a faith tradition, are the source of all of the world's problems. It doesn't take courses and lectures to tell us that. My son is applying to Rice for next year. We visited it and he liked it, but he has been in schools before that have gone full bore on the DEI thing and in general it's off putting, to say the least.

On a lighter note, when I was but a wee lad, I applied to Rice and was accepted. I was at an event on campus where they had students who were accepted spend a day in the College to which they were assigned. I was having a great time, talking with students at lunch, when an enrolled student asked me, "Are you sure you want to go here?"
"Of course", I said, "Why not?"
"Well, the tests are hard and the women are ugly".
I laughed and kept on eating lunch, but driving home from the campus it really started to sink in that I was about to sign up for a nerdfest and a slog. Plus, I always hated Houston (still do, in fact). The fine folks at Texas A&M came through with some additional scholarship money, and it was Sayonara Rice.

Rice has gone over the edge into the woke abyss in the last ten years. They recently hired an unqualified zealot for their president and he has been on an insane anti white campaign since entering that role.

When I was there in the late 90s the school newspaper endorsed Bush for president. Now they have a ****** on the dance team that performs at football games.

NomadicAggie said:

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My son has is a senior in HS, has been accepted to A&M engineering and several other schools so far. Never in my wildest dreams did I actually think I would be opposed to going to so many of these types (Rice, private schools) of schools.

I believe my son could get into several Ivy League schools...and I can't think of hardly any I would be ok with him attending, which is a sad, sad commentary on present day academia. These places are nothing but liberal hiding places for the "woke" who don't actually produce anything of value to society. Their goal is to target our children.

I have a coworker who sent his daughter to Pepperdine. Said it was the worst decision he's ever made. Cost him a fortune, and he can't even speak to his daughter anymore she went so far off the deep end.

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It's really sad that the Left has indeed captured academia and owns it pretty much lock, stock, and barrel. Unfortunately, my son is not STEM inclined nor STEM oriented. So we don't have any conservative leaning schools that have excellent academics in what he wants to study. I have ZERO concern that he would go off to a liberal leaning school and become a WokeTard. He's already been in that situation and it didn't happen. If anything, it made him dig in more firmly. My bigger concern would be having to spend four years immersed in an environment where the students buy into all of that rot as well as the faculty and administration, and its prevalence is overwhelming. Especially in a small school like Rice. I could see that being really isolating for a kid with a functioning brain.

Congrats to your son.

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NomadicAggie said:

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My son has is a senior in HS, has been accepted to A&M engineering and several other schools so far. Never in my wildest dreams did I actually think I would be opposed to going to so many of these types (Rice, private schools) of schools.

I believe my son could get into several Ivy League schools...and I can't think of hardly any I would be ok with him attending, which is a sad, sad commentary on present day academia. These places are nothing but liberal hiding places for the "woke" who don't actually produce anything of value to society. Their goal is to target our children.

I have a coworker who sent his daughter to Pepperdine. Said it was the worst decision he's ever made. Cost him a fortune, and he can't even speak to his daughter anymore she went so far off the deep end.

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It's really sad that the Left has indeed captured academia and owns it pretty much lock, stock, and barrel. Unfortunately, my son is not STEM inclined nor STEM oriented. So we don't have any conservative leaning schools that have excellent academics in what he wants to study. I have ZERO concern that he would go off to a liberal leaning school and become a WokeTard. He's already been in that situation and it didn't happen. If anything, it made him dig in more firmly. My bigger concern would be having to spend four years immersed in an environment where the students buy into all of that rot as well as the faculty and administration, and its prevalence is overwhelming. Especially in a small school like Rice. I could see that being really isolating for a kid with a functioning brain.

Congrats to your son.

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What is your son wanting to study?

Political Science, maybe a minor in History or some form of business.
I can almost guarantee that he will want to go to law school. He has zero interest in medicine, and I am thankful for that, to be honest. His brain is wired very differently than mine. He can read freaky fast and retain what he is reading. Math skills, not quite so much.

Going to our state school is OK, but not exactly what he wants. He's sick of hearing every kid in his school talk about the flagship school as the only thing on earth, and I tend to agree with him. It's just such a shame that all of these more "elite" schools run so hard to the Left.

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Political Science, maybe a minor in History or some form of business.
I can almost guarantee that he will want to go to law school. He has zero interest in medicine, and I am thankful for that, to be honest. His brain is wired very differently than mine. He can read freaky fast and retain what he is reading. Math skills, not quite so much.

Going to our state school is OK, but not exactly what he wants. He's sick of hearing every kid in his school talk about the flagship school as the only thing on earth, and I tend to agree with him. It's just such a shame that all of these more "elite" schools run so hard to the Left.

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May want to check into the Claremont Colleges or Hillsdale. If he has any interest in the military the Academies are an option.

NomadicAggie said:

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My son has is a senior in HS, has been accepted to A&M engineering and several other schools so far. Never in my wildest dreams did I actually think I would be opposed to going to so many of these types (Rice, private schools) of schools.

I believe my son could get into several Ivy League schools...and I can't think of hardly any I would be ok with him attending, which is a sad, sad commentary on present day academia. These places are nothing but liberal hiding places for the "woke" who don't actually produce anything of value to society. Their goal is to target our children.

I have a coworker who sent his daughter to Pepperdine. Said it was the worst decision he's ever made. Cost him a fortune, and he can't even speak to his daughter anymore she went so far off the deep end.

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The Pepperdine comment shocks me. I was under the impression that it was the last bastion of academic normalcy in the woke desert of upper ed in CA.

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Kool said:

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Political Science, maybe a minor in History or some form of business.
I can almost guarantee that he will want to go to law school. He has zero interest in medicine, and I am thankful for that, to be honest. His brain is wired very differently than mine. He can read freaky fast and retain what he is reading. Math skills, not quite so much.

Going to our state school is OK, but not exactly what he wants. He's sick of hearing every kid in his school talk about the flagship school as the only thing on earth, and I tend to agree with him. It's just such a shame that all of these more "elite" schools run so hard to the Left.

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May want to check into the Claremont Colleges or Hillsdale. If he has any interest in the military the Academies are an option.

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not sure these are anywhere near the same spectrum as the other two listed if your referring to the attitudes toward DEI, etc.