The SCC Files: Sandy & Larry STILL trying to fool us
They’ve been caught mismanaging tax dollars, fighting transparency, and shoving cronyist, leftist policies down our collective throat. But none of that has prevented state Rep. Neal Jackson from reappointing Larry Caddell to four more years on the board of trustees, or the sleep-walking catatonic board from extending college president Sandy Stewart’s contract by three years.
Eradicating DEI from the campus has been a battle royale. The state and federal governments have expressed their disapproval of entities receiving government funding practicing DEI. Many entities have dropped the practice of DEI altogether. Yet many, like the University of Tennessee, are getting really sneaky:
The University of Tennessee is continuing to push diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts despite no longer operating a formal DEI office, according to a recent report by the Daily Wire.
Casey A. Barrio Minton, Professor and Department Head of Counselor Education, acknowledged in a video that the university’s current “Access and Engagement” office is essentially a continuation of the former “Diversity and Inclusion” office under a different name. Barrio Minton explained that the office isn’t “a whole lot different” and admitted it practices DEI and does “many of the same things” as the old office.
“I haven’t noticed a big shift in the programming. I haven’t noticed a big shift of climate on campus beyond trying to ride the waves,” Barrio Minton said. […]
That’s pretty sneaky, eh?
Here’s the University of Tampa renaming their DEI operation to The Office of Access and Community Programs.
Here’s a similar story from Texas.
Notice how similar the language is between all of these DEI operations? Different name, same “flavor.”
Here’s another leftist explaining to us how “accessibility and DEI are deeply interconnected.”
Can you imagine someone in our neck of the woods trying something like that? Like, say, Sandhills Community College?
Sandhills gets some federal money. The Republican-dominated legislature has paid a lot of lip service to eradicating DEI.
Sandhills used to have a DEI office. Now, it has an Office of Community and Cultural Engagement. (Kind of like Tennessee’s Access and Engagement office.) Sandhills’s version even has something called “Access Advocates.”
The office is being run by the same lady who ran the DEI office at the time it was supposedly killed off. (She is still all over the Internet identifying herself as a DEI advocate.) The programming is the same. White males (except President Sandy) are conspicuously absent from the office’s web page. Tarring white straight males as the enemy and creating special opportunities for students based on race, gender, and sexual preference is still the name of the game.
Let’s keep looking at President Sandy. His chief of staff is someone named Julie Voigt. In 2023, Voigt was invited to a national conference – sponsored by the Aspen Institute. The purpose of the event was to focus on the genders and races represented in the ranks of college presidents. Getting more of certain races and genders into those jobs. Basically, DEI. She and her fellow attendees were marked by event organizers as “the next generation of college presidents.” (President Sandy ought to watch his back.)
