Friends, Like so many institutions, AFSC and its managers don’t seem to cotton to outside media examination. Plaudits, bouquets, puff pieces for their pet programs? Yes. They especially like mentions that AFSC won the Nobel Peace Prize. But questions, challenges, notes that the Nobel came in 1947, which was three generations ago, and everybody connected … Continue reading AFSC-DEI Tuesday Update: Someone Didn’t Get The Memo
For those following the unrest in AFSC headquarters about the identity & status of its DEI Director Raquel Saraswati (previously blogged about here ), a clarifying email came in late Friday from AFSC staffer Layne Mullett. In it, Mullett answered the two big questions:
The conflict in AFSC over disclosures about their Director of DEI continues. A Friday update to the blog post that broke this story is here: https://wp.m/p5FGIu-7t0
With New Updates as of May 12, 2024 [Scroll down for updates] I talked with Hector Cortez on Wednesday [February 15, 2023]. He’s the Associate General Secretary of AFSC, Number Two in their top leadership. He was upset. And he told me nothing. Well, almost nothing. It was the Can’t-confirm-or-deny kind of nothing.
One of the most shopworn and least shocking of discoveries about USA higher education Is that of Ivy League “affirmative action” (aka preferential admissions) for the non-genius children of wealthy donors or powerful alumni (mainly WASPS). This “exposé” (which, to be fair, is also found at many other non-ivy schools) has been around about a … Continue reading Harvard, Affirmative Action, “Reparations,” & Me