What you would assume and expect isn’t happening at Cornell. Clarity of actions, we mean. Instead, the actions taken to the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program are connected to “Resilient Cornell,” the university’s administrative directive. If A is done, or B isn’t done — even if actions have enormous implications for a department, program, etc. — the outcome is connected to the directive. “Because of it, this is what we did.” That directive includes paying strict attention to federally imposed interpretations associated with funding, expanding, continuing, etc., diversity programs and policies.
It is too easy to point to “the enemy without,” claiming that the incursion on higher education is coming only from the Trump Administration. There is also “the enemy within,” sometimes complicit, and at other times an active agent in compromising higher education’s values and mission.
Cornell has the audacity to claim that it maintains an institutional commitment to Indigenous communities as it also de-structures a program. From Cornell
From Sue Lyons on Facebook
From The Cornell Sun — Letters to the Editor, Commentaries, and Articles pertaining to the AIISP
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