These days, almost every academic opening winds up being filled by someone who is throughly imbued with “progressive” ideology. If you’re not “woke” don’t bother applying.
A case in point is the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina. In today’s Martin Center article, Shannon Watkins writes about the school’s new dean, Raul Reis. He has announced that DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) will “permeate everything the school does.”
UNC’s J-school was already far gone, but it’s clear that DEI will now utterly saturate the school. The “journalists” it graduates will be even more zealous than ever in pushing the leftist agenda. Watkins points out that academic freedom will take a beating as faculty members will be expected to pledge allegiance to the diversity ideology.
Perhaps UNC’s Board of Governors will exercise some oversight and not allow Reis to turn UNC’s J-school into his leftist utopia, but I wouldn’t count on it.