“Roger Williams University (RWU), known for its high-profile social justice programming, including managing a city reparations initiative and mandating Critical Race Theory coursework, will furlough most employees to offset a $3.5 million budget shortfall,” Campus Reform reports:
The Rhode Island university is requiring a one-week unpaid furlough for faculty and staff before June 30.
The measure is expected to cover “up to half” of the current budget gap….The university’s decision comes just two years after it was selected to lead Providence’s city-run reparations program.
A study by a California State University professor found that an increase in “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies at a college is linked to rising opposition there to free speech. “The rise of DEI bureaucracies has actually coincided with the beginning of a ‘Free-Speech Crisis on College Campuses,’” noted the study.
Critical Race Theory is hostile to free markets and hostile to free speech. “To love capitalism is to end up loving racism. To love racism is to end up loving capitalism…Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist,” ssays Ibram Kendi’s book How to Be An Antiracist. That book is a “comprehensive introduction to critical race theory,” gushed the progressive media organ Slate. The “key concept” in Kendi’s book “How To Be An Antiracist” was that discrimination against whites is the only way to achieve equality: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination,” wrote Kendi in that book.
