Cornell Faculty Senate To Vote on ‘Anti-Racism’ Requirements, Professor Jacobson Reacts

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National Review

Brittany Bernstein

May 11, 2021 5:03 PM

Cornell University’s Faculty Senate will vote this week on a slate of “anti-racism” proposals, including whether to mandate an educational requirement on “racism, bias and equity” for students and faculty.

The group will vote on a set of six resolutions, which come after university president Martha Pollack tasked the Faculty Senate with developing plans for the creation and implementation of such a requirement in July 2020.

William A. Jacobson, a clinical professor of law at Cornell Law School, has stood in vocal opposition to the proposals, which explore and endorse, to varying degrees, possibilities for a for-credit training on anti-racism.

“I am unequivocally against mandates. I do not accept what the university and much of academia, I believe, misleadingly calls anti-racism,” he said in a recent interview with National Review. 

He added that anti-racism, as prescribed by Ibram Kendi in his book How to be an Anti-Racist, calls for discrimination against people in power to remedy past discrimination.

Read the full article at the National Review’s website here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cornell-faculty-set-to-vote-on-anti-racism-training-mandate-for-students-faculty/

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