Princeton Removes Greek, Latin Requirement for Classics Majors to Combat ‘Systemic Racism’
Имею тупой вопрос - действительно ли я ?
Classics majors at Princeton University will no longer be required to learn Greek or Latin in a push to create a more inclusive and equitable program, an effort that was given “new urgency” by the “events around race that occurred last summer,” according to faculty.
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“We think that having new perspectives in the field will make the field better,” he said. “Having people who come in who might not have studied classics in high school and might not have had a previous exposure to Greek and Latin, we think that having those students in the department will make it a more vibrant intellectual community.”
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A diversity and equity statement on the department’s site says that the “history of our own department bears witness to the place of Classics in the long arc of systemic racism.”
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The department has a four-person equity committee and says it aims to “create opportunities for the advancement of students and (future) colleagues from historically underrepresented backgrounds within the discipline,” which includes “ensuring that a broad range of perspectives and experiences inform our study of the ancient Greek and Roman past.”
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“We condemn and reject in the strongest possible terms the racism that has made our department and our field inhospitable to Black and non-Black scholars of color, and we affirm that Black Lives Matter,” the statement reads.
Не подумайте плохого - поддерживаю инициативу однозначно. Просто она половинчатая и не отвечает современным вызовам в достаточной мере. Считаю, что все плющи должны поддержать, развить и углУбить. Очевидно же, что буквально все универы в США просто обязаны иметь more vibrant intellectual community!
Вообще предлагаю не затягивать процесс и сразу обратить особое внимание на тех негро-лесбиянок, которые классифицируются по DSM-5 или F20.0—F20.3 в МКБ-10. Four-person equity committee явно недорабатывают в этом отношении, а как без этого добиться нужного уровня diversity and equity?