The university will recommend axing its Gender and Women’s Studies major this week, though courses will remain. Alumni, and a former director, say the program inspired inquiry and empathy.
Endless examples of failed leadership at UW, but they still have to spend millions to recruit students to a school that wants to stand for nothing instead of just looking in the mirror.
And, those 'cowboys' that Biteman mentions are as authentic as his Wyoming values which he brought from Michigan two minutes ago to immediately run for office.
As a parent of a UW student who will graduate this weekend with a BA in Gender and Women's Studies, I am disgusted by the administration's capitulation to the anti-intellectual freedom caucus. While the official reasoning may be low graduation rates, this is likely brought about by lack of funding and support for the department. Do the UW administration and trustees understand what they are encouraging/enabling? Surely they are aware that this will not be sufficient for the freedom caucus. Unfortunately, because UW has shown again (last year it was preemptively getting rid of the DEI office) that it is ready to bow to caucus demands, we should be prepared for even more state government control of our University. UW should be ashamed.
Thank you, as always, for your thorough reporting.
Endless examples of failed leadership at UW, but they still have to spend millions to recruit students to a school that wants to stand for nothing instead of just looking in the mirror.
And, those 'cowboys' that Biteman mentions are as authentic as his Wyoming values which he brought from Michigan two minutes ago to immediately run for office.
As a parent of a UW student who will graduate this weekend with a BA in Gender and Women's Studies, I am disgusted by the administration's capitulation to the anti-intellectual freedom caucus. While the official reasoning may be low graduation rates, this is likely brought about by lack of funding and support for the department. Do the UW administration and trustees understand what they are encouraging/enabling? Surely they are aware that this will not be sufficient for the freedom caucus. Unfortunately, because UW has shown again (last year it was preemptively getting rid of the DEI office) that it is ready to bow to caucus demands, we should be prepared for even more state government control of our University. UW should be ashamed.
Thank you, as always, for your thorough reporting.
Well said M Miller.