{"id":23811,"date":"2023-06-06T04:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T04:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=23811"},"modified":"2023-06-06T04:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T04:52:47","slug":"some-uva-administrators-seek-information-about-the-political-views-of-students-and-faculty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=23811","title":{"rendered":"Some UVA administrators seek information about the political views of students and faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Some new University of Virginia trustees are pushing for the university to collect information on the political views of faculty and students. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyprogress.com\/news\/uva-board-of-visitors-floats-tracking-student-faculty-political-ideology\/article_aff72f24-01a5-11ee-83e0-4f8c6e129ddb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily progress<\/a> reported<\/p>\n<p>At a Board of Visitors meeting Friday, Douglas Wetmore, who was appointed to the board by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, last year, asked why the university&#8217;s diversity panel does not include an assessment of the ideologies of students or teachers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How come we don&#8217;t have dashboards that track, say, faculty political ideology?&#8221;  Wetmore asked.  &#8220;Why wouldn&#8217;t we do that to try to convince ourselves that we have a balance and that we are serving the full range of needs of our constituents as a leading public university?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Most Popular Stories<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The most popular<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bert Ellis, also appointed last year, said he agrees with Wetmore&#8217;s suggestion and wants to see more &#8220;robust debates&#8221; at UVA that can only happen with a diversity of viewpoints and beliefs.  &#8220;You can&#8217;t have them if everyone has the same views as you,&#8221; Ellis said.  &#8220;It&#8217;s no fun debating with like-minded people, which I rarely do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Jim Ryan said diversity includes &#8220;the entire spectrum of human attributes, perspectives, identities, backgrounds and disciplines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Ryan said he is open to suggestions about ways to track political affiliations among those at the university, he told the board he has reservations about &#8220;legal prohibitions&#8221; on inquiring about the political views of a future teacher or student.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2023\/06\/06\/some-uva-trustees-seek-information-about-political-views-student-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some new University of Virginia trustees are pushing for the university to collect information on the political views of faculty and students. Daily progress reported At a Board of Visitors meeting Friday, Douglas Wetmore, who was appointed to the board by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, last year, asked why the university&#8217;s diversity panel does not include an assessment of the ideologies of students or teachers. &#8220;How come we don&#8217;t have dashboards that track, say, faculty political ideology?&#8221; Wetmore asked. &#8220;Why wouldn&#8217;t we do that to try to convince ourselves that we have a balance and that we are serving&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23812,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions\/23812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}