We’re living in the age of gender studies, but the University of Wyoming may transition to agender.
The Equality State’s Senate recently approved a 2023-24 budget addition indicating that not all majors are created equal.
From February 25th’s amendment, sponsored by Rep. Sen. Cheri Steinmetz:
These appropriations require that the University of Wyoming not use any general or federal funds for any gender studies course, co-curricular program or extracurricular program.
Given our current academic climate, it’s a major move. And the school isn’t willing to go quietly — hence its website heralding, “[The School of Culture, Gender & Social Justice] and Gender & Women’s Studies Stand Firm in the Face of Attacks.”
U of W provided some vague words
The face of [the]Vote, you have been asked not to speak, to stop, or to move from your place. … One may think that this is not a big deal, that it is just further marginalization of already marginalized people. The suppression of all dissent will lead to dictatorship and tyranny. These evil roots flourish and thrive in silence.
The amendment might have been motivated more by practicality than pure wickedness.
The College Fix
Students at the University of Wyoming have already determined they are not interested in the program – only six total bachelor degrees were awarded in the major in 2021.
Five were secondary degrees that students with a second major received. WGS majors make up.02% of the diplomas awarded with more than 2,200 undergraduate degrees.
Six degrees is a high amount of the program – in 2020, the WGS department awarded three degrees, the same as it did in 2019.
However, the legislative chamber was still energized by horn-locking.
Per the Washington Examiner, Rep. State Sen. Charles Scott failed to see “any academic legitimacy” to “an extremely biased, ideologically driven program.”
Democratic State Senator Chris Rothfuss calls for consistency
“I think it would really be disappointing if the university would go down that path where we started to decide what can and can’t be taught, which books we can and can’t read. Those kinds of things — they’re just not consistent with the mission of a university.”
These studies may be eliminated by the Republican government. But don’t worry: The University of Wyoming has a strong Black Studies Center.
According to the official website:
The…Black Studies Center (UWBCS) remains dedicated to culturally responsive teaching, rural community-focused engagement, and evidence-based research to add to the [school’s] tapestry. America’s current social atmosphere of political populism and blatant racism has emboldened a critical mass of individuals and organizations to engage in racist, assaultive, divisive, and sometimes violent acts under the guise of “Making America Great Again” and misguided patriotism.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle has a possible reprieve for gender studies that have been sabotaged.
The prospect of losing…funding was eased Friday when the Joint Conference Committee altered the amendment to instead require UW to report to the Legislature numbers of students who take noncredit, non-required or incentivized coursework on behavioral and sexual health. Now, the university also would have to report the effect of school policies on students’ choices to study subjects covered by the program.
It is possible that some people feel such advanced degrees are a wasteful of education because they have no real value in the real-world.
But I believe they’re mistaken.
People used to predict that participation trophies will make it impossible for a new generation of workers to find work. The job market has changed to meet their needs.
It’s a similar case with progressive diplomas.
The society has evolved. It is no longer considered superfluous to be essential. In an unimaginable way, schools and other organizations have set up departments for social matters.
It’s only the beginning of the journey.
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Tomorrow’s power will come from the social justice majors.
Maybe once those graduates are all in place — in the event that Women’s Studies has been 86’d — they’ll reinstate the program…if there’s still such a thing as women.
-ALEX
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