A seemingly intractable lack of diversity blemishes the otherwise strong reputation of the University of Colorado's flagship campus in Boulder. Throwbacks looking for immersion into white, homogenous, coercionist groupthink need look no farther than the Boulder campus to find Nirvana.
This is nothing new and the faculty seem to like it.
To uphold white, privileged groupthink as an officially accepted worldview, the Boulder Faculty Assembly voted for more of it last week. They censured CU President Mark Kennedy, a man who has arguably done more than any other single person to diversity a campus that ranks among the country's least diverse in terms of ethnicity and philosophy. Incredibly, even laughably, the nearly all-white faculty censured Kennedy on the pretense they want more diversity. Their complaint charges Kennedy with “failure of leadership with respect to diversity, equity and inclusion.”