{"id":1130646,"date":"2021-12-18T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130646"},"modified":"2021-12-18T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:58:55","slug":"oxford-university-race-task-force-proposes-woke-scores-for-hiring-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oxford-university-race-task-force-proposes-woke-scores-for-hiring-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University Race Task Force Proposes Woke Scores for Hiring Academics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foxford-university-race-task-force-proposes-woke-scores-for-hiring-academics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130646&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1218883063-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The University of Oxford is reportedly considering using woke scores when judging the qualifications of prospective academics in order to supposedly increase diversity at the school.<\/p>\n<p>A series of proposals from Oxford\u2019s race equality task force include calls for England\u2019s oldest university to \u201cembed\u201d the principle of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) into \u201call recruitment\u201d of university staff and academics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The recommendations \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/12\/17\/fury-oxford-university-plan-hire-academics-based-woke\/\">seen<\/a> by <em>The Telegraph \u2014<\/em>&nbsp;go on to demand that a candidate\u2019s \u201cgood citizenship and\/or commitment to EDI work\u201d should be an \u201cessential criteria\u201d when assessing job applications, meaning that the school should hire based on whether candidates subscribe to the task force\u2019s supposedly anti-racist ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;race equality task force went on to call for additional funding for woke programmes, including for \u201cinclusive teaching, curriculum diversification and decolonising activities\u201d throughout all departments and faculties at Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Combatting so-called microaggressions was also a central theme of the proposals, which said that the school should be&nbsp;\u201cencouraging individuals to educate themselves on the experiences of others and empowering everyone to become active bystanders when they witness harassment or abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Woke training sessions should be implemented as well, the task force claimed, arguing that it is necessary for students and academics alike to&nbsp;\u201ccontinuously learn and better understand microaggressions and stereotypes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On top of leftist indoctrination sessions, the proposals went on to call for funding to hire equality, diversity, and inclusion \u201cobserves\u201d to \u201cprovide support\u201d during the recruitment process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.974025974026\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oxford University Bans Clapping to Keep People from Being \u2018Triggered\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iVOpGuqahz\">https:\/\/t.co\/iVOpGuqahz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1188004902032826372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The leftist proposals have drawn some pushback within the senior ranks of the Oxford faculty, with one don telling the British broadsheet:&nbsp;\u201cIf we are supposed to pay attention to their EDI \u2014 their woke score \u2014 does this mean it doesn\u2019t matter if they are useless at teaching and research? Or do you now have to get a minimum woke score to get a job?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The don went on to reveal that one of the questions meant to \u201ctease out\u201d the ideology of prospective hirees was:&nbsp;\u201cCan you give me examples on how you have called out these kinds of issues in your previous appointment?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo you are being interviewed for a job in alchemy, yet you have to go out your way to show you have tried to virtue signal \u2014 to an old codger like me it just seems crazy. Do you mark someone down because they haven\u2019t jumped on the woke bandwagon?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Defending the race task force, a spokesman for Oxford University said: \u201cThe race equality task force was established to advance racial equity across the collegiate University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter reviewing staff and student responses we will agree [on] a detailed strategy by the end of the academic year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest proposals come amid a wider push throughout academia in Britain to \u201cdecolonise the curriculum\u201d following the reemergence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the country following the death of George Floyd last year in America, with Oxford itself previously running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/02\/oxford-student-investigated-for-rapping-n-word-notorious-b-i-g-track\/\">racial training bias training sessions<\/a> after one student made a joke about the killing.<\/p>\n<p>The leftist agenda push has seen attacks on British history, literature, and music, with Leicester University scrapping courses in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/06\/woke-university-pushes-decolonised-curriculum-to-replace-medieval-english-courses\/\">Medieval English literature<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 removing canonical texts such as Chaucer\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Canterbury Tales<\/em>&nbsp;and <em>Beowulf<\/em>&nbsp;from the curriculum<em>&nbsp;\u2014<\/em>&nbsp;in order to focus on works surrounding sexuality, diversity, race, and ethnicity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9574468085106\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delingpole: Now Oxford University Grovels to Black Lives Matter <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PsXQXWu8rN\">https:\/\/t.co\/PsXQXWu8rN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1273222861763813376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Oxford is reportedly considering using woke scores when judging the qualifications of prospective academics in order to supposedly increase diversity at the school. 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