Tag: Virginia Tech
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“Death to America”
The event was not registered as required by university policy. But Virginia Tech allowed it to proceed unimpeded at McBryde Hall, Room 202.
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File This Under, “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”
Virginia Tech is implementing a new admissions-application process for the next academic year. Snowed under by a record 57,600 first-year applications last year, Tech will be using AI to help sort through all those essays. States the Virginia Tech news bureau: The changes include shifting the university’s early admissions application deadline from Nov. 15 to…
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Tech Tackles DEI Layoffs
by James A. Bacon The Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment (CNRE) is eliminating the position of Director of Inclusion and Diversity and laying off the director herself. The action follows the shutting down of Tech’s central DEI office and the discharge of some of its employees. “The University is asking units to…
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The DEI Debate, So Far, Is Stupefyingly Superficial
by James A. Bacon Virginia Tech President Timothy Sands held a special meeting Friday to discuss the impact of the Trump administration’s order to shut down higher-ed Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs across the country. Tech’s Board of Visitors voted recently to comply with the directive, and Sands said that the university would no longer…
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DEI and the First-Gen Dodge
by James A. Bacon Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors has joined the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University in voting to dismantle its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program. Of course, local media found minority students who are unhappy with the decision. “I’m here on a scholarship for first-generation students, so I find these kinds…
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The End of Science! Lives Will Be Lost!
by James A. Bacon Don’t question university overhead costs or thousands will die! That is essentially the message of Virginia’s big three research universities — Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University — in response to a National Institutes of Health initiative capping reimbursable overhead costs to 15% of the research grants…
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The Woke Scare Is Four Times Worse Than the Red Scare
by James A. Bacon More than a third (35%) of tenured and tenure-track faculty at 55 of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities say they have toned down their writing for fear of engendering controversy, according to a new survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). That compares to 9% during…