ASU Faculty, BLM, and the Neoliberal University

Parents of potential ASU students, do you want a group of professors to decide that your child needs a neoliberal education?  One of the questions I keep coming back to here is what would happen if a conservative viewpoint were promoted during a faculty meeting or in a classroom?  My impression is that professors would object.  But this same standard is not kept when far-left ideologies are presented in faculty meetings or the classroom.  That discriminatory behavior is wrong and does not live up to the goal of access for all that ASU promotes.

Recently, when I logged into Zoom for a faculty meeting in the School of Humanities Arts and Cultural Studies, I was put into a waiting room with this image on my screen.  Apparently, ASU faculty had been meeting about using Covid and BLM to promote the neoliberal university.   It is stunning that 1) they admit a connection between these, and 2) faculty time is used for this highly partisan viewpoint while no time is given to the alternative.

So many questions come to mind.  What were they discussing concerning the Black Lives Matter Movement?  Were they questioning the assumptions about race held by BLM?  Were they asking where the money has gone or how leadership can be held accountable for spending?  Were they asking about the consequences of BLM’s view of race or who it has helped?  How do Covid and Covid restrictions factor into this plan for neoliberal education?

One waiting room screen told us all so much.  Parents, current students, are you paying for a neoliberal education at ASU?  Are you comfortable with professors using their classrooms to promote this far-left race ideology?  Parents and students can always inquire of the leadership of these schools at ASU as to whether this political bias is acceptable at a state university.

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