On Noisy Pendulums: with May-June updates
On Noisy Pendulums: with May-June updates
New good news are in bold
This newsletter is a continuation of a series:
This page will be updated when more good news of the covered period. The following two months will be reflected in a subsequent letter. New developments are in bold.
Declared institutional neutrality:
DEI loyalty oath in faculty hiring is out:
Blue and Purple states:
UMass Boston (c. November 2023)
MIT (c. May 2024)
Harvard (June 2024)
University of Colorado Boulder (c. 2023)
More need to come forward.
Red states:
Currently North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana, Utah, Kansas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida feature a comprehensive anti-DEI legislation. More are added “every day.”
SATs/ACTs are back:
MIT (March 28, 2022)
Georgetown University (c. Fall 2022)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (along with the entire University of Tennessee System) (c. Fall 2022)
Purdue (November 29, 2022)
Dartmouth (February 5, 2024) (as the president of the first Ivy to restore normalcy, Sian Beilock is honored with a 2024 Cojones Award)
Yale (February 22, 2024)
Brown (March 5, 2024)
Harvard (April 11, 2024)
Caltech (April 11, 2024)
UT Austin (March 11, 2024)
Vanderbilt (c. 2024, comes in effect in Fall 2027)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (c. 2024, comes in effect in Spring 2027)
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Never went to the dark side:
University of Florida, Florida State University (along with the entire State University System of Florida)
Georgia Tech, University of Georgia (along with the entire University System of Georgia)
Among the schools for gifted and talented, the standardized admission tests are restored:
Lowell High School (San Francisco) (c. July 2022)
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Never went to the dark side:
The Bronx High School of Science (never abolished tests in the firts place)
The remaining 250+, including Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia (SCOTUS case lost) and our own O'Bryant School of Math & Science (SCOTUS case pending), are yet to return from the dead.
More to come (I can’t believe I am saying this).
Eli Steele was pretty succinct on the subject: .
Stanford decides that giving into the ideology of black inferiority during the white guilt/George Floyd trip was a bad idea. The University will reinstate the SAT in 2026.
The future literature scholars will argue about whether the “guilt” is bridging to “trip” or the “trip” is alluding to a delusion while the “guilt” is paired with “white” with no additives. Whatever.
In FB’s opinion, schools owe the applicants and current students an explanation. The latter really want to know why the tests deemed racist are back without a statement to the opposite. Here is ABC 7 News:
Carmen Davalos was part of the last [Stanford] class of students required to submit test scores: "I'm pretty confused about it to be honest because I have heard a lot of like the criticism that ACT and SAT act as a further barrier of entry for certain populations like people of color," he said.