{"id":537186,"date":"2021-05-22T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T15:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537186"},"modified":"2021-05-22T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T15:50:55","slug":"university-of-colorado-president-pushed-out-for-supposed-lack-of-commitment-to-diversity-after-establishing-millions-for-race-based-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-colorado-president-pushed-out-for-supposed-lack-of-commitment-to-diversity-after-establishing-millions-for-race-based-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"University Of Colorado President Pushed Out For Supposed Lack Of Commitment To Diversity After Establishing Millions For Race-Based Initiatives"},"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\">38<\/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%2Funiversity-of-colorado-president-pushed-out-for-supposed-lack-of-commitment-to-diversity-after-establishing-millions-for-race-based-initiatives%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=537186&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\/05\/GettyImages-1231697978.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A university president was pushed out for not being leftist enough for students and faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy announced he would resign after just two years in the position. Now, The Federalist has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/20\/university-of-colorado-president-pushed-out-for-insufficient-leftism\/\">reported<\/a> that the reason Kennedy resigned was that he wasn\u2019t leftist enough for the campus, particularly on the issue of diversity, even though he hired UC\u2019s first chief diversity officer and secured a $5 million fund of race-based initiatives, including a program that offered in-state tuition for members of Colorado\u2019s indigenous tribes.<\/p>\n<p>UC\u2019s Vice President of Communications Ken McConnellogue defended Kennedy to the Federalist, telling the outlet Kennedy also \u201ccontributed $1 million in his own funds for a school of medicine scholarship for students in underrepresented communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn\u2019t enough for students and faculty, who already despised Kennedy because he had previously criticized affirmative action and apparently opposed same-sex marriage. In March, the Federalist reported, UC\u2019s faculty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/bfa\/sites\/default\/files\/attached-files\/bfa_m_2_040121_motion_to_censure_final_draft.5.pdf\">voted to censure<\/a> Kennedy for \u201chis failure of leadership with respect to diversity, equity, and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe urgency of this issue requires leadership at the highest level of our University of Colorado system, leadership in actions and words,\u201d the faculty wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy had entered the position with narrow support from the university\u2019s board of regents at the time. Last fall, however, Democrats flipped control of the board for the first time in 41 years and began purging anyone not left-of-center. Kennedy, a Republican who previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives and as president of the University of North Dakota, was in the crosshairs for sure. The board, along with students and faculty, began looking for something they could use to claim Kennedy was a racist.<\/p>\n<p>In their lengthy censure of the president, the faculty wrote that Kennedy\u2019s use of the term \u201cTrail of Tears\u201d was offensive and diminished the \u201cgenocide of Indigenous Peoples,\u201d as well as hurt the university\u2019s inclusion efforts. Kennedy used the phrase as a metaphor for declining class enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn-campus is declining and online is growing,\u201d Kennedy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/b83ee29c12009d67eacf1d808d37d642\">said<\/a>&nbsp;last August. \u201cIf we don\u2019t get online right\u2026 we have a trail of tears in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from the Federalist:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>Students at the Boulder campus censured Kennedy along the same lines in April, complaining Kennedy\u2019s commitment to efforts of diversity and inclusion failed to meet the far-left standards which now demand adherence to structural diversity as a secular quasi-religion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kennedy\u2019s initiatives weren\u2019t enough, won\u2019t ever will be enough, can\u2019t ever be enough when the apparent oppressor possesses an \u201cR\u201d next to his name.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not sure if I would go as far as to say he\u2019s being fired for insufficient wokeness,\u201d McConnellogue said, but \u201cwhat is clear is that there\u2019s a new make up of the board and they want to go in a different direction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A university president was pushed out for not being leftist enough for students and faculty.Earlier this month, University of Colorado President Mark Kennedy announced he would resign after just two &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312690,"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\/05\/GettyImages-1231697978.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"University Of Colorado President Pushed Out For Supposed Lack Of Commitment To Diversity After Establishing Millions For Race-Based Initiatives","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1231697978.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"University Of Colorado President Pushed Out For Supposed Lack Of Commitment To Diversity After Establishing Millions For Race-Based Initiatives","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537186","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=537186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}