A list of puns related to "Regent University"
TLDR: The Board of Regents changed the time of today's Public Comments Session once they found out my friends and I wanted to speak. They left early and ignored our voices.
The State of Iowa Board of Regents (BoR) is the administrative body that makes big decisions about how Iowa State University and other Iowa schools spend and get their money. Today, the Board of Regents was on campus and held an all day meeting in the ISU Alumni Center.
During this meeting, there was a section of the meeting where 30 minutes were dedicated to a Public Comments Session. A group of my friends and I are very concerned about one of the recent actions the BoR took. We planned to show up and make our case to the BoR. We had around 25 to 30 students, alumni, and community leaders gathered to speak our minds about the issue and push the BoR to change their plans.
We were told that the session would start at 4:30pm. We showed up at around 3:45pm, checked in with the people at the door, and waited patiently outside for the session to begin. At 4:30 when we asked again, the people at the door told us that the session time had been moved up, already taken place, and ended.
By 4:30pm, the BoR had already ended the rest of today's meeting and left. Their publicly posted meeting minutes said they were supposed to go all the way till 5:20pm, with the Public Comments Session from 4:30 to 5:00. No where was this time change publicly available and the people already gathered to participate were not informed.
Regardless if you agree with our group's issues about the budget or not, I hope you can agree with me that this behavior is unacceptable and wrong. These are the people who your tuition money goes to. These are the people who are supposed to be our leaders. They are acting like frightened children and I will not stand for it.
If you would like to ensure that students have a voice at this university, please comment or DM me and I can make my pitch to you about joining the group that didn't get to speak today. Thank you for reading my rant, have a silenced rest of your day.
I haven't seen any talk about this, but it is blowing up the Listserve here. The Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia is scheduled to vote on eliminating tenure at a meeting tomorrow. During a recent meeting, there's been reports that this is a punitive measure due in part to insubordination regarding Georgia's mask policy. This is coming on the heels of the board trying to remove the employment protections that come with tenure.
Here's a link to one of a few articles covering the whole debacle https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/10/04/tenure-under-threat-georgia
It's not quite up to date as the initial vote to abolish tenure happened today.
Another article on Gerson from Julie Roys' blog. Looks like Gerson pulled the same garbage at Pat Robertson's university.
The article quotes some current CU students:
Deja Terhune, a senior secondary English education major at Cornerstone, said she hadn’t received any information about the faculty and staff who have departed. “There is no transparency at all. No one is saying anything, everything is very secretive at the moment,” she said.
Some students of color have spoken out about what they view as the president’s distaste for diversity programs.
“The gaslighting, spiritual abuse, racial microaggressions, removal of faculty and lack of safe spaces for people of color has been detrimental to my mental, emotional, and spiritual health and I am now seeing a therapist I hardly afford and have moved off campus to have space to breathe, rest, and recover from CU,” wrote Lamont Aldridge, a junior and intern in the school’s diversity department, in a letter shared with faculty on Oct. 21. “I do not trust the new administration or changes made to lead to the flourishing of our university, especially for marginalized students.”
Link: https://julieroys.com/cornerstone-universitys-president-is-under-fire-pattern-faculty-purges/
This may be a naive question as well as stupid but I’ve always wondered why they ask that. Im pretty sure I know the answer since its on the application to the school but I just wanna ask y’all to be sure.
https://twitter.com/utsystem/status/1319351730010771458 https://twitter.com/utsystem/status/1319351731784978432 https://twitter.com/utsystem/status/1319351733366173696 https://twitter.com/utsystem/status/1319351734913912840 https://twitter.com/utsystem/status/1319351736184786945
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