{"id":134755,"date":"2021-02-15T17:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=134755"},"modified":"2021-02-15T18:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:13:06","slug":"east-coast-universities-conduct-anti-racist-audit-in-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/east-coast-universities-conduct-anti-racist-audit-in-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"East Coast Universities Conduct \u2018Anti-Racist Audit\u2019 In Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Feast-coast-universities-conduct-anti-racist-audit-in-libraries%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=134755&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\/02\/White-Privilege.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The University of Delaware and Binghamton University are launching year-long \u201canti-racism talent management audit[s].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/sr.ithaka.org\/blog\/launching-an-anti-racism-talent-management-audit\/\"><span>press release<\/span><\/a> <span>from Ithaka S+R, the consulting firm conducting the audit, the focus will be on addressing issues of \u201cequity and justice\u201d in the university\u2019s library systems. It will specifically focus on the policies, practices, and outcomes related to recruitment, employment, promotion, and retention patterns in libraries.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe will work together to identify actionable reforms, building on and extending the impact of prior Ithaka S+R projects on representational diversity, organizational culture, and community engagement undertaken with library, museum, and archive partners,\u201d the press release reads.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAcross organizations and sectors, systemic&nbsp; racism and resulting inequities have had a disproportionate impact on black staff members, and given this, the audit will maintain a strong emphasis on organizational culture and climate issues affecting black employees in particular.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Binghamton announced its commitment to conducting an \u201canti-racist audit\u201d back in Sept. 2020. In an \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/libraries\/about\/admin\/diversity\/anti-racism\/index.html\"><span>anti-racist statement<\/span><\/a><span>,\u201d the faculty acknowledged their \u201cresponsibility as representatives of a predominantly white institution (PWI) to repair the effects of institutionalized racism and advance anti-racist practices.\u201d They also promised to advance \u201canti-racist work\u201d in the library system.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe acknowledge our institutional responsibility for addressing racism within the libraries and leveraging our resources to advance other anti-racist work ongoing at the university and beyond,\u201d the statement reads.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The audit will be conducted by the consulting firm Ithaka S+R, which help institutions \u201cadapt to new realities and opportunities.\u201d The organization<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/sr.ithaka.org\/our-work\/diversity\/\"><span>promotes<\/span><\/a> <span>equity, diversity, and inclusion audits and training for institutions, with a specific focus on art museums and research libraries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to an<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/sr.ithaka.org\/blog\/accountability-and-reconciliation-higher-eds-fraught-history-of-slavery\/\"><span>article<\/span><\/a> <span>from the company, its strategy is to call on universities to gain a deeper understanding of their role with slavery, construct symbolic messaging, and seek justice for past injuries.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Noted success stories of universities combating racism include Brown University\u2019s establishment of the \u201cCenter for the Study of Slavery and Justice.\u201d Research at the center focuses on colonialism, capitalism, race, and mass incarceration. Other successes include colleges renaming and removing monuments on campus with connections to slavery and \u201cwhite supremacist ideologies.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The organization also promotes racial reparations. It applauded the Virginia Theological Seminary which, according to the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/d00434e3cbbf4769babf2e6a9513d4c1\"><span>Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span>, announced a $1.7 million reparations fund.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ithaka S+R has an agenda in calling on \u201caccountability and reconciliation\u201d from universities that they believe perpetuate racism. The same universities that they slander as racist proceed to hire them to fix their racism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry skyrocketed. Individuals and companies have profited greatly from providing trainings and audits that helps institutions become \u201canti-racist.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Maryland, a taxpayer-funded \u201cequity consortium\u201d made over<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/md-school-district-to-spend-over-450000-on-anti-racist-audit\/\"><span>$450,000<\/span><\/a> <span>on an \u201canti-racist audit\u201d for the Montgomery County Public School District. The firm promised to create a plan to provide \u201cequitable outcomes for every student\u2019s academic and social-emotional well-being. In Virginia, the Loudoun County Public School district spent<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/loudoun-county-schools-spend-hundreds-of-thousands-on-critical-race-theory\/\"><span>$422,500<\/span><\/a> <span>in taxpayer funds on critical race theory training developed by a similar consulting firm.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The University of Delaware and Binghamton University did not respond to requests for comment on how much each university will spend to conduct the audit.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Delaware and Binghamton University are launching year-long \u201canti-racism talent management audit[s].\u201d According to a press release from Ithaka S+R, the consulting firm conducting the audit, the focus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181317,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/White-Privilege.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"East Coast Universities Conduct \u2018Anti-Racist Audit\u2019 In Libraries","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/White-Privilege.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"East Coast Universities Conduct \u2018Anti-Racist Audit\u2019 In Libraries","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}