NAS Blog

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Carey Stronach, president of the Virginia Association of Scholars, explains why the crusade for “diversity” by the administration at Virginia Tech is unacceptable to scholars.

Academic promotion should no more depend on “diversity accomplishments” than on “religious accomplishments” or “chess accomplishments” or “gardening accomplishments.” If the administrators can’t see that by “privileging” (to use a favorite leftist term) the diversity mindset over everything else they’re undermining real academic work, they should be summarily dismissed.