This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 43 Iowa State University / Source: Wikimedia Commons Alex Nester • May 8, 2021 4:55 am
Welcome back to Campus Insanity, a weekly roundup of the craziest developments at our nation s 4,000-plus institutions of higher education.
6. Yale Researcher Gives New Ant Species a ‘Non-Binary’ Scientific Name |
Yale taxonomy expert Douglas Booher suggested adding the gender non-binary identifier ‘they’ as a suffix to the name of a recently discovered ant species,
Strumigenys ayersthey. While species names typically end with either a masculine or feminine suffix, Booher intended to honor gay rights activist Jeremy Ayers with the plural pronoun.
5. U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee Workshop Helps Participants To ‘Confront Whiteness’ |
Lisa Anderson-Levy s Perspective February 4, 2021
Over the last few weeks, I have witnessed the astonishment of white folks surprised by the insurrection at the nation’s capital on Jan 6th. White fear and violence are threaded throughout US history, which people of color have known and survived for over four hundred years. White violence in the US began with the colonization and genocide of native people and has continued through the systematic exclusion and murder of people of African, Asian, and Latinx descent, among others.
Historically, whiteness defined itself against “non-white” others who were understood to be dangerous, criminal, and therefore “un-American.” The fear of racialized others is essential to white identity in the US. The insurrection was shocking because many white people don’t see themselves as violent. The power of whiteness allows some to believe that virulent racism or white nationalist ideations are the beliefs of a crazy few rather than a cen
January 25, 2021 Ohio Wesleyan is naming 25 faculty members as its first group of Equity Fellows. The professors will collaborate on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives impacting the university curriculum.
(Photo by Dixon Stoddard ’16)
Equity Fellows By Ohio Wesleyan University
DELAWARE, Ohio – Ohio Wesleyan University is pleased to announce its inaugural cohort of Equity Fellows. This spring, these 25 faculty will embark on a collaborative initiative aimed at fostering equity and anti-racism at Ohio Wesleyan.
The Equity Fellows program has been designed by Drs. Lisa Anderson-Levy and Catherine M. Orr of Beloit College, and is modeled after their innovative “Decolonizing Pedagogies” Project. Drs. Ashley Biser, Assistant Provost for Curriculum and Equity, and Nancy Comorau, Associate Professor of English, will work with Drs. Anderson-Levy and Orr to share their transformative process with the OWU campus.